CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-8368
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-05-12
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-522
Description
LWP::UserAgent versions before 6.83 for Perl leak Authorization and Proxy-Authorization headers on cross-origin redirects.
On a 3xx response, the redirect handler strips only Host and Cookie before issuing the follow-up request. Caller-supplied Authorization and Proxy-Authorization headers are sent unchanged to the redirect target, including across scheme, host, or port changes.
A redirect to an attacker controlled host therefore discloses the caller's credentials to that host.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials weakness
References
- https://github.com/libwww-perl/libwww-perl/commit/9c4aeb6f2dd32f2b7eaf2d7827cade31ea6cb2c6.patch github.com
- https://github.com/libwww-perl/libwww-perl/pull/284 github.com
- https://github.com/libwww-perl/libwww-perl/pull/512 github.com
- https://metacpan.org/release/OALDERS/libwww-perl-6.83/changes metacpan.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/12/7 www.openwall.com