CVE-2024-28849

Summary

follow-redirects is an open source, drop-in replacement for Node's http and https modules that automatically follows redirects. In affected versions follow-redirects only clears authorization header during cross-domain redirect, but keep the proxy-authentication header which contains credentials too. This vulnerability may lead to credentials leak, but has been addressed in version 1.15.6. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-200: CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/security/advisories/GHSA-cxjh-pqwp-8mfp
• https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/1885
• https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/commit/c4f847f85176991f95ab9c88af63b1294de8649b
• https://hackerone.com/reports/2390009
• https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#authentication-entries
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VOIF4EPQUCKDBEVTGRQDZ3CGTYQHPO7Z/

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/security/advisories/GHSA-cxjh-pqwp-8mfp
• https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/1885
• https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/commit/c4f847f85176991f95ab9c88af63b1294de8649b
• https://hackerone.com/reports/2390009
• https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#authentication-entries
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VOIF4EPQUCKDBEVTGRQDZ3CGTYQHPO7Z/

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