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Debian: CVE-2022-21712: twisted -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2022-21712: twisted -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/07/2022
Created
02/24/2022
Added
02/23/2022
Modified
02/23/2022

Description

twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. In affected versions twisted exposes cookies and authorization headers when following cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the `twited.web.RedirectAgent` and `twisted.web. BrowserLikeRedirectAgent` functions. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-twisted

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