CVE-2018-20060 (GCVE-0-2018-20060)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-12-11 17:00 – Updated: 2024-12-27 16:02
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
urllib3 before version 1.23 does not remove the Authorization HTTP header when following a cross-origin redirect (i.e., a redirect that differs in host, port, or scheme). This can allow for credentials in the Authorization header to be exposed to unintended hosts or transmitted in cleartext.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
12 references
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|---|---|
| https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/issues/1316 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/pull/1346 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/blob/master/CH… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1649153 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3990-1/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2272 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2024122… |
Date Public
2018-12-11 00:00
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.