CVE-2022-0536 is a low-severity (CVSS 2.6) CWE-212 vulnerability in follow-redirects. A fix is available for follow-redirects — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer in follow-redirects/follow-redirects
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2022-0536 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,166 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.
follow-redirectsnpmDescription
Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer in NPM follow-redirects prior to 1.14.8.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📦npm | follow-redirects | all versions | 1.14.8npm install follow-redirects@1.14.8 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for follow-redirects, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update follow-redirects to 1.14.8 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2022-0536 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like CVE-2022-0536 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to CVE-2022-0536. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1 | openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8:1.36.9-1 | RHSA-2022:1739 |
| Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.7 | rhmtc/openshift-migration-ui-rhel8:v1.7.2-9 | RHSA-2022:5483 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.11 on RHEL8 | odf4/odf-console-rhel8:v4.11.0-51 | RHSA-2022:6156 |
| RHINT Service Registry 2.3.0 GA | follow-redirects | RHSA-2022:6835 |
| Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.14 | odf4/cephcsi-rhel9:v4.14-1764178221 | RHSA-2025:22420 |
| Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.15 | odf4/cephcsi-rhel9:v4.15-1764176261 | RHSA-2025:22418 |
| Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.16 | odf4/cephcsi-rhel9:v4.16-1764168955 | RHSA-2025:22416 |
| Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4.17 | odf4/cephcsi-rhel9:v4.17-1764167834 | RHSA-2025:22415 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2022-0536 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds CVE-2022-0536 across npm dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.