Authentication Bypass Affecting urllib3 package, versions [,1.23)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.11% (85th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-URLLIB3-72681
- published 12 Dec 2018
- disclosed 11 Dec 2018
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 11 Dec 2018
CVE-2018-20060 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade urllib3 to version 1.23 or higher.
Overview
urllib3 is a HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass. It did remove the Authorization HTTP header when following a cross-origin redirect. This can allow for credentials in the Authorization header to be exposed to unintended hosts or transmitted in cleartext.