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

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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
10/09/2018
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
07/22/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-python-psycopg2-doc
  • alma-upgrade-python2-Cython
  • alma-upgrade-python2-PyMySQL
  • alma-upgrade-python2-attrs
  • alma-upgrade-python2-chardet
  • alma-upgrade-python2-coverage
  • alma-upgrade-python2-dns
  • alma-upgrade-python2-docs
  • alma-upgrade-python2-docs-info
  • alma-upgrade-python2-docutils
  • alma-upgrade-python2-funcsigs
  • alma-upgrade-python2-idna
  • alma-upgrade-python2-ipaddress
  • alma-upgrade-python2-markupsafe
  • alma-upgrade-python2-mock
  • alma-upgrade-python2-pluggy
  • alma-upgrade-python2-psycopg2
  • alma-upgrade-python2-psycopg2-debug
  • alma-upgrade-python2-psycopg2-tests
  • alma-upgrade-python2-py
  • alma-upgrade-python2-pysocks
  • alma-upgrade-python2-pytest
  • alma-upgrade-python2-pytest-mock
  • alma-upgrade-python2-pytz
  • alma-upgrade-python2-pyyaml
  • alma-upgrade-python2-requests
  • alma-upgrade-python2-rpm-macros
  • alma-upgrade-python2-setuptools_scm

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