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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in RequestsGHSA-cfj3-7x9c-4p3h

MEDIUM

GHSA-cfj3-7x9c-4p3h is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) Information Exposure vulnerability in requests. A fix is available for requests — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Also known asCVE-2014-1829PYSEC-2014-13
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 10, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
2.2%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs83th percentile — riskier than 83% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.90%1.81%2.71%0.5%2.2%May 26Sep 26Nov 26

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

1 pkg affected
🐍requests

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Description

Requests (aka python-requests) before 2.3.0 allows remote servers to obtain a netrc password by reading the Authorization header in a redirected request.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐍PyPIrequestsall versions2.3.0pip install --upgrade 'requests==2.3.0'

Affected Products

4 products · 4 configurations
OS
ubuntu linuxcanonical
1 version
14.04
OS
debian linuxdebian
1 version
7.0
OS
mageiamageia
1 version
4.0
Application
requestspython
≤ 2.2.1
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    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.

  2. Fix

    Update requests to 2.3.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-cfj3-7x9c-4p3h is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Assume what was exposed is already known: rotate any credential, token or key that the affected component could return, restrict the endpoint to callers that genuinely need it, and strip sensitive fields from responses and error output at the boundary rather than relying on the client not to read them.

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.

Ubuntu
USN-2382-1Ubuntu

Frequently Asked Questions

Requests (aka python-requests) before 2.3.0 allows remote servers to obtain a netrc password by reading the Authorization header in a redirected request.
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