CVE-2024-28849 Proxy-Authorization header kept across hosts in follow-redirects

2024-03-1417:07:27

CWE-200

GitHub_M

github.com

proxy-authorization

credentials

vulnerability

follow-redirects

version 1.15.6

upgrade

CVSS3

6.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

AI Score

6.6

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

poc

Automatable

Technical Impact

partial

JSON

follow-redirects is an open source, drop-in replacement for Node’s http and https modules that automatically follows redirects. In affected versions follow-redirects only clears authorization header during cross-domain redirect, but keep the proxy-authentication header which contains credentials too. This vulnerability may lead to credentials leak, but has been addressed in version 1.15.6. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

ADP Affected

[
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:follow-redirects_project:follow-redirects:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*"
    ],
    "vendor": "follow-redirects_project",
    "product": "follow-redirects",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "1.15.6",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unknown"
  }
]