HTTP Request Redirection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package requests (opens in a new tab)
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- published17 Jul 2016
- disclosed17 Jul 2016
- creditScott Geary
Introduced: 17 Jul 2016
CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-601 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
According to the vendor, setting the Session.trust_env to False completely mitigates this risk.
Overview
requests is a Python HTTP for Humans.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTPoxy attacks. The Python CGIHandler class did not properly protect against the HTTP_PROXY variable. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to redirect HTTP requests performed by a Python CGI script to an attacker-controlled proxy via a malicious HTTP request.