Information Exposure Affecting requests package, versions <2.3.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-REQUESTS-336491
  • published15 Oct 2014
  • disclosed15 Oct 2014

Introduced: 15 Oct 2014

CVE-2014-1829  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 requests to version 2.3.0-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream requests package and not the requests package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1