Summary
Jakub Wilk discovered that in requests,
an HTTP library for the Python language, authentication information was improperly handled when a redirect occured. This would allow remote servers to obtain two different types of sensitive information: proxy passwords from the Proxy-Authorization header (CVE-2014-1830), or netrc passwords from the Authorization header (CVE-2014-1829).
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy),
this problem has been fixed in version 0.12.1-1+deb7u1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.0-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your requests packages.
Affected
requests on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software
version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2014-1829, CVE-2014-1830 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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