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Ubuntu: USN-5354-1 (CVE-2022-21712): Twisted vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5354-1 (CVE-2022-21712): Twisted vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/07/2022
Created
04/02/2022
Added
03/31/2022
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-twisted
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-twisted-bin
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-twisted
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-twisted-bin

References

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