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Insufficiently Protected Credentials in Requests

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 29, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

pip requests (pip)

Affected versions

<= 2.19.1

Patched versions

2.20.0

Description

The Requests package through 2.19.1 before 2018-09-14 for Python sends an HTTP Authorization header to an http URI upon receiving a same-hostname https-to-http redirect, which makes it easier for remote attackers to discover credentials by sniffing the network.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 9, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 29, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-18074

GHSA ID

GHSA-x84v-xcm2-53pg

Source code

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