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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-18074: python-requests security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-18074: python-requests security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/09/2018
Created
01/03/2020
Added
01/03/2020
Modified
04/16/2021

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)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-python2-requests
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-python3-requests

References

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