CVE-2014-1829

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-1829
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-10-15 14:55:05 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionRequests (aka python-requests) before 2.3.0 allows remote servers to obtain a netrc password by reading the Authorization header in a redirected request.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-200 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Mageia Mageia 4.0 All All All
Application Python Requests All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2015:133 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com Broken Link
Mageia Advisory: MGASA-2014-0409 - Updated python-requests packages fix security vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 advisories.mageia.org Third Party Advisory
USN-2382-1: Requests vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Redirect can expose netrc password · Issue #1885 · kennethreitz/requests · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Issue Tracking, Patch
#733108 - python3-requests: redirect can expose netrc password - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org Issue Tracking
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3146-1 requests af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
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