HIGH 7.5 PyPI
Insufficiently Protected Credentials in Requests
GHSA-x84v-xcm2-53pg · CVE-2018-18074 · PYSEC-2018-28
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Description
The Requests package through 2.19.1 before 2018-09-14 for Python sends an HTTP Authorization header to an http URI upon receiving a same-hostname https-to-http redirect, which makes it easier for remote attackers to discover credentials by sniffing the network.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18074
- WEB https://github.com/requests/requests/issues/4716
- WEB https://github.com/requests/requests/pull/4718
- WEB https://github.com/requests/requests/commit/c45d7c49ea75133e52ab22a8e9e13173938e36ff
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2035
- WEB https://bugs.debian.org/910766
- WEB https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/requests/PYSEC-2018-28.yaml
- PACKAGE https://github.com/requests/requests
- WEB https://usn.ubuntu.com/3790-1
- WEB https://usn.ubuntu.com/3790-2
- WEB https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
- WEB http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/community/updates/#release-and-version-history
- WEB http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00024.html
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