Summary
urllib3 is a powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python. urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python standard libraries:
• Thread safety.
• Connection pooling.
• Client-side SSL/TLS verification.
• File uploads with multipart encoding.
• Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects.
• Support for gzip, deflate, brotli, and zstd encoding.
• Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS.
• 100% test coverage.
Security Fix(es):
* urllib3: proxy-authorization request header is not stripped during cross-origin redirects (CVE-2024-37891)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Fixed packages 1
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux · 9 | python3.12-urllib3 | 1.26.18-2.el9_5.1 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 4.4
Proxy-Authorization request header isn't stripped during cross-origin redirects in urllib3
urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python. When using urllib3's proxy support with `ProxyManager`, the `Proxy-Authorization` header is only sent to the configured proxy, as expected. However, when sending HTTP requests *without* using urllib3'…