GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-7w2g-9mf9-324m Hurl: Cookies in Cookies section leak when redirecting to a different host

MEDIUM Published 2026-09-02 Modified 2026-09-02 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-63481
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
hurl
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weaknesses
CWE-201
Reviewed
2026-09-02

Affected packages

• crates.io hurl: <= 8.0.1 (no fix yet)

Description

The Bug Hurl <= 8.0.1 lets you define cookies two ways in a .hurl file: 1. As a raw Cookie: header in the [Header]/headers area 2. In a dedicated [Cookies] section (parsed into RequestSpec.cookies) When following a redirect to a different host, Hurl correctly strips security-sensitive data (Authorization, Cookie header, and basic-auth user) to avoid leaking credentials cross-host — mirroring libcurl's default behavior. But it only stripped the cookie that came in as a header. Cookies declared in the [Cookies] section were carried over to the new host unchanged — a credential-leak bug. Hurl file that leaks cookies: ```hurl GET http://localhost:8000/follow-redirect-basic-auth?change_host=true [Cookies] fruit: lemon HTTP 200 ``` Hurl file that doesn't leak cookie: ```hurl GET http://localhost:8000/follow-redirect-basic-auth?change_host=true Cookie: fruit=lemon HTTP 200 ``` Patch With Hurl <= 8.0.1, user can use `Cookie` header instead of the dedicated `[Cookies]` section.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-63481 Hurl is a command line tool that runs and tests HTTP requests defined in plain text files. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-201 Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data weakness

References