GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-7w2g-9mf9-324m Hurl: Cookies in Cookies section leak when redirecting to a different host
MEDIUM
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- 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
- https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/security/advisories/GHSA-7w2g-9mf9-324m web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63481 advisory
- https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/pull/5119 web
- https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/commit/ed91c894c2cf11704422010554037e3ba70b446e web
- https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl package