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Medium USN-8825-1 1 CVE

requests vulnerability

Published Sep 28, 2026 · Updated Sep 28, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that Requests did not correctly handle generating
random temporary file paths. An attacker could possibly use this issue
to execute arbitrary code.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS requests 2.25.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.4
Ubuntu · 24.04 LTS 24.04:LTS requests 2.31.0+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2
Ubuntu · 26.04 LTS 26.04:LTS requests 2.32.5+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu · Pro 20.04 LTS Pro:20.04:LTS requests 2.22.0-2ubuntu1.1+esm2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 4.4
    CVE-2026-25645 Public exploit

    Requests has Insecure Temp File Reuse in its extract_zipped_paths() utility function

    Requests is a HTTP library. Prior to version 2.33.0, the `requests.utils.extract_zipped_paths()` utility function uses a predictable filename when extracting files from zip archives into the system temporary directory. If the target file already exists, it is…

    psf requests open-webui katib-suggestion-hyperopt Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine Wolfi PyPI

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-25645