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debiancveDebian Security Bug TrackerDEBIANCVE:CVE-2023-32681
HistoryMay 26, 2023 - 6:15 p.m.

CVE-2023-32681

2023-05-2618:15:14
Debian Security Bug Tracker
security-tracker.debian.org
45
vulnerability
http library
proxy-authorization
sensitive information
patch
unix

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

43.5%

Requests is a HTTP library. Since Requests 2.3.0, Requests has been leaking Proxy-Authorization headers to destination servers when redirected to an HTTPS endpoint. This is a product of how we use rebuild_proxies to reattach the Proxy-Authorization header to requests. For HTTP connections sent through the tunnel, the proxy will identify the header in the request itself and remove it prior to forwarding to the destination server. However when sent over HTTPS, the Proxy-Authorization header must be sent in the CONNECT request as the proxy has no visibility into the tunneled request. This results in Requests forwarding proxy credentials to the destination server unintentionally, allowing a malicious actor to potentially exfiltrate sensitive information. This issue has been patched in version 2.31.0.