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Sensitive information sent insecurely In requests

Description

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Requests Requests (aka python-requests) before 2.3.0 allows remote servers to obtain a netrc password by reading the Authorization header in a redirected request.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
Component
Affected version
Patched versions

Aliases

1. CVE-2014-18292. NVD-2014-18293. OSV-2014-18294. OSV-DEBIAN-2014-18295. GHSA-cfj3-7x9c-4p3h6. GCVE-2014-18297. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2014-1829

References

1. https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/18852. https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/18853. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=7331084. https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/requests/PYSEC-2014-13.yaml5. https://web.archive.org/web/20150523055216/http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/advisory/MDVSA-2015:133/?name=MDVSA-2015:1336. http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0409.html7. http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-31468. http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:1339. http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2382-1

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