Information Exposure Affecting twisted package, versions <22.1.0-2ubuntu2


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.38% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2310-TWISTED-5979397
  • published10 Feb 2022
  • disclosed7 Feb 2022

Introduced: 7 Feb 2022

CVE-2022-21712  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:23.10 twisted to version 22.1.0-2ubuntu2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream twisted package and not the twisted package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:23.10 relevant fixed versions and status.

twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. In affected versions twisted exposes cookies and authorization headers when following cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the twited.web.RedirectAgent and twisted.web. BrowserLikeRedirectAgent functions. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1