Information Exposure Affecting follow-redirects package, versions <1.15.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-FOLLOWREDIRECTS-6444610
  • published15 Mar 2024
  • disclosed14 Mar 2024
  • credit4xpl0r3r

Introduced: 14 Mar 2024

CVE-2024-28849  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade follow-redirects to version 1.15.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure due to the handling of the Proxy-Authorization header across hosts. When using a dependent library, it only clears the authorization header during cross-domain redirects but allows the proxy-authentication header, which contains credentials, to persist. This behavior may lead to the unintended leakage of credentials if an attacker can trigger a cross-domain redirect and capture the persistent proxy-authentication header.

PoC

const axios = require('axios');

axios.get('http://127.0.0.1:10081/',{
headers: {
'AuThorization': 'Rear Test',
'ProXy-AuthoriZation': 'Rear Test',
'coOkie': 't=1'
}
}).then(function (response) {
console.log(response);
})

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