vulnerability

Alma Linux: CVE-2018-18074: Moderate: python27:2.7 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-1605)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 9, 2018
Added
May 4, 2022
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

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.

Solutions

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