Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package requests  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-REQUESTS-632206
  • published15 Oct 2014
  • disclosed15 Oct 2014

Introduced: 15 Oct 2014

CVE-2014-1829  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream requests package and not the requests package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Requests (aka python-requests) before 2.3.0 allows remote servers to obtain a netrc password by reading the Authorization header in a redirected request.