Information Exposure Affecting requests package, versions [,2.20)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.29% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-REQUESTS-72435
  • published10 Oct 2018
  • disclosed9 Oct 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18074  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade request to version 2.20 or higher.

Overview

Requests is a Non-GMO HTTP library for Python

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Upon receiving a same-hostname https-to-http redirect, it sends the HTTP Authorization header to an http URI. This makes it easier for remote attackers to discover credentials by sniffing the network.

CVSS Scores

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