Bug 1221450 (CVE-2024-28849)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2024-28849: TRACKERBUG: follow-redirects: possible credential leak
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	andrea.mattiazzo
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/397689/
Whiteboard:	CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-28849:6.5:(AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Bug Depends on:	1221454, 1221456, 1221457, 1221453
Bug Blocks:

Description SMASH SMASH 2024-03-15 08:41:50 UTC

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.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-28849
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-28849
https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#authentication-entries
https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/security/advisories/GHSA-cxjh-pqwp-8mfp
https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/1885
https://hackerone.com/reports/2390009
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2269576

Patch:
https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/commit/c4f847f85176991f95ab9c88af63b1294de8649b