Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2018-25091 |
CWE-ID | CWE-200 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
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Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU82979
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 5.7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-25091
CWE-ID:
CWE-200 - Information exposure
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to urllib3 does not remove the authorization HTTP header when following a cross-origin redirect. A remote attacker can gain access to sensitive information.
Note, the vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for #VU26413 (CVE-2018-20060).
Install updates from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsurllib3: before 1.24.2
External linkshttp://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/compare/1.24.1...1.24.2
http://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/1510
http://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/adb358f8e06865406d1f05e581a16cbea2136fbc
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.