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CVE-2023-32681

MEDIUM
6.1CVSS
Published: 2023-05-26
Updated: 2025-02-13
AI Analysis

Description

Requests is a HTTP library. Since Requests 2.3.0, Requests has been leaking Proxy-Authorization headers to destination servers when redirected to an HTTPS endpoint. This is a product of how we use `rebuild_proxies` to reattach the `Proxy-Authorization` header to requests. For HTTP connections sent through the tunnel, the proxy will identify the header in the request itself and remove it prior to forwarding to the destination server. However when sent over HTTPS, the `Proxy-Authorization` header must be sent in the CONNECT request as the proxy has no visibility into the tunneled request. This results in Requests forwarding proxy credentials to the destination server unintentionally, allowing a malicious actor to potentially exfiltrate sensitive information. This issue has been patched in version 2.31.0.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
high
Privileges
none
User Action
required
Scope
changed
Confidentiality
high
Integrity
none
Availability
none
Weaknesses
CWE-200NVD-CWE-noinfo

Metadata

Primary Vendor
PYTHON
Published
5/26/2023
Last Modified
2/13/2025
Source
NIST NVD
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Affected Products

python : requestsfedoraproject : fedora

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