SB2014101513 - Information disclosure in Novell Opensuse
Published: October 15, 2014 Updated: August 10, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2014101513
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-1830)
CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
Requests (aka python-requests) before 2.3.0 allows remote servers to obtain sensitive information by reading the Proxy-Authorization header in a redirected request.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0409.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00095.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3146
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:133
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=733108
- https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/1885