CVE-2024-28849 Information

Description

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.

Reference

https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/security/advisories/GHSA-cxjh-pqwp-8mfp https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/1885 https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/commit/c4f847f85176991f95ab9c88af63b1294de8649b https://hackerone.com/reports/2390009 https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#authentication-entries