Vulnerability CVE-2018-18074
Published: 2018-10-09

Description:
The Requests package before 2.20.0 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.

Type:

CWE-522

 (Insufficiently Protected Credentials)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Python-requests -> Requests 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/community/updates/#release-and-version-history
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00024.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2035
https://bugs.debian.org/910766
https://github.com/requests/requests/commit/c45d7c49ea75133e52ab22a8e9e13173938e36ff
https://github.com/requests/requests/issues/4716
https://github.com/requests/requests/pull/4718
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3790-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3790-2/
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