GHSA-www2-v7xj-xrc6CriticalCVSS 9.8

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in urllib3

Published
December 12, 2018
Last Modified
December 27, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

urllib3 before version 1.23 does not remove the Authorization HTTP header when following a cross-origin redirect (i.e., a redirect that differs in host, port, or scheme). This can allow for credentials in the Authorization header to be exposed to unintended hosts or transmitted in cleartext.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/urllib3:< 1.23

🔗 References (19)