Information Exposure Affecting org.webjars.npm:follow-redirects package, versions [,1.14.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-2332182
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Jan 2022
  • creditranjit-git

Introduced: 11 Jan 2022

CVE-2022-0155  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-359  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.webjars.npm:follow-redirects to version 1.14.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure by leaking the cookie header to a third party site in the process of fetching a remote URL with the cookie in the request body. If the response contains a location header, it will follow the redirect to another URL of a potentially malicious actor, to which the cookie would be exposed.

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