PYSEC-2026-3844 HTTPX2: Secure WebSocket traffic sent without TLS through SOCKS proxies

Summary httpcore2 does not start TLS for wss:// connections routed through a SOCKS5 proxy. The WebSocket opening handshake and all subsequent frames are sent in plaintext through the proxy path, despite the caller selecting the secure wss scheme. The transport flaw affects httpcore2 releases befo...

PT-2015-1101

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 42.0.2311.90 Opera affected versions not specified Description The issue arises from the URLRequest::GetHSTSRedirect function in url request/url request.cc, which fails to replace the ws scheme with the wss sche...