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USN-2382-1: Requests vulnerabilities

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USN-2382-1: Requests vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/14/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/16/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Requests (aka python-requests) before 2.3.0 allows remote servers to obtain sensitive information by reading the Proxy-Authorization header in a redirected request.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-requests
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-requests

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