Vulnerability CVE-2015-2296
Published: 2015-03-18

Description:
The resolve_redirects function in sessions.py in requests 2.1.0 through 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to conduct session fixation attacks via a cookie without a host value in a redirect.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Python-requests -> Requests 
Mageia project -> Mageia 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0120.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/14/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/15/1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2531-1
https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/commit/3bd8afbff29e50b38f889b2f688785a669b9aafc
https://warehouse.python.org/project/requests/2.6.0/
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