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Red Hat: CVE-2022-21712: dev-python/twisted: secret exposure in cross-origin redirects

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2022-21712: dev-python/twisted: secret exposure in cross-origin redirects
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2022-02-07T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, Red Hat, 2022, 21712, dev, no-fix-redhat-rpm-package, Severity 5

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Severity

CVSS

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

Published

Feb 7, 2022

Added

Jul 9, 2025

Modified

Jul 9, 2025

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

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package

References

NVD-CVE-2022-21712

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