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Medium RLSA-2023:4520 1 CVE

Moderate: python-requests security update

Published Aug 28, 2023 · Updated Feb 5, 2026

Ecosystem: Rocky Linux

Summary

The python-requests package contains a library designed to make HTTP requests easy for developers.

Security Fix(es):

* python-requests: Unintended leak of Proxy-Authorization header (CVE-2023-32681)

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

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 python-requests 0:2.20.0-3.el8_8

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.1
    CVE-2023-32681 Public exploit

    Unintended leak of Proxy-Authorization header in requests

    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…

    psf requests python-pip requests Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux PyPI

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209469