CVE-2024-28849

follow-redirects is an open source, drop-in replacement for Node's `http` and `https` modules that automatically follows redirects. In affected versions follow-redirects only clears authorization header during cross-domain redirect, but keep the proxy-authentication header which contains credentials too. This vulnerability may lead to credentials leak, but has been addressed in version 1.15.6. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

• CWE-200

• https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#authentication-entriesTechnical Description
• https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/commit/c4f847f85176991f95ab9c88af63b1294de8649bPatch
• https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/security/advisories/GHSA-cxjh-pqwp-8mfpExploit, Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/1885Issue Tracking
• https://hackerone.com/reports/2390009Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VOIF4EPQUCKDBEVTGRQDZ3CGTYQHPO7Z/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#authentication-entriesTechnical Description
• https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/commit/c4f847f85176991f95ab9c88af63b1294de8649bPatch
• https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/security/advisories/GHSA-cxjh-pqwp-8mfpExploit, Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/1885Issue Tracking
• https://hackerone.com/reports/2390009Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VOIF4EPQUCKDBEVTGRQDZ3CGTYQHPO7Z/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

Published

Mar 14, 2024

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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