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Unscored USN-2531-1 1 CVE

requests vulnerability

Published Mar 16, 2015 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Matthew Daley discovered that Requests incorrectly handled cookies without
host values when being redirected. A remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to perform session fixation or cookie stealing attacks.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS requests 2.2.1-1ubuntu0.2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium —
    CVE-2015-2296

    Python Requests Session Fixation

    The resolve_redirects function in sessions.py in requests 2.1.0 through 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to conduct session fixation attacks via a cookie without a host value in a redirect.

    requests requests requests Debian Ubuntu PyPI

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2296