Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-18074): Requests vulnerability
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
10/09/2018
03/19/2019
10/23/2018
06/10/2021
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)
- ubuntu-upgrade-python-requests
- ubuntu-upgrade-python-requests-whl
- ubuntu-upgrade-python3-requests
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