CVE-2024-47081 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) CWE-522 vulnerability in requests. A fix is available for requests — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Requests vulnerable to .netrc credentials leak via malicious URLs
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2024-47081.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
Where this sits among everything scored
Real-World Exposure
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Description
Requests is a HTTP library. Due to a URL parsing issue, Requests releases prior to 2.32.4 may leak .netrc credentials to third parties for specific maliciously-crafted URLs. Users should upgrade to version 2.32.4 to receive a fix. For older versions of Requests, use of the .netrc file can be disabled with trust_env=False on one's Requests Session.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐍PyPI | requests | all versions | 2.32.4pip install --upgrade 'requests==2.32.4' |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for requests, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update requests to 2.32.4 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2024-47081 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.
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.
Moderate impact: The Requests HTTP library used in affected Red Hat products can leak .netrc credentials to a third party when a client processes a maliciously crafted URL because of a URL-parsing flaw. The CVSS 3.1 score is 5.3 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N), reflecting a network-reachable attack requiring…
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.Source: Red Hat security advisory for CVE-2024-47081 (CC BY 4.0)
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | python-requests-0:2.32.4-1.el10_0 | RHSA-2025:13604 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | fence-agents-0:4.2.1-129.el8_10.14 | RHSA-2025:14750 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | resource-agents-0:4.9.0-54.el8_10.16 | RHSA-2025:14999 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | python-requests-0:2.20.0-6.el8_10 | RHSA-2025:13234 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support | python-requests-0:2.20.0-3.el8_2 | RHSA-2025:15723 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support | fence-agents-0:4.2.1-65.el8_4.21 | RHSA-2025:15622 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support | resource-agents-0:4.1.1-90.el8_4.20 | RHSA-2025:15618 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support | python-requests-0:2.20.0-3.el8_4 | RHSA-2025:15691 |
Frequently Asked Questions
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