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 Base Scores

version 3.1