GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-9hjg-9r4m-mvj7 Requests vulnerable to .netrc credentials leak via malicious URLs
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2024-47081
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- requests
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-522
- Reviewed
- 2025-06-09
Affected packages
• PyPI requests: < 2.32.4 → fixed in 2.32.4
Description
Impact
Due to a URL parsing issue, Requests releases prior to 2.32.4 may leak .netrc credentials to third parties for specific maliciously-crafted URLs.
Workarounds
For older versions of Requests, use of the .netrc file can be disabled with `trust_env=False` on your Requests Session (docs).
References
https://github.com/psf/requests/pull/6965
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/2
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2024-47081 Requests is a HTTP library. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials weakness
References
- https://github.com/psf/requests/security/advisories/GHSA-9hjg-9r4m-mvj7 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47081 advisory
- https://github.com/psf/requests/pull/6965 web
- https://github.com/psf/requests/commit/96ba401c1296ab1dda74a2365ef36d88f7d144ef web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9hjg-9r4m-mvj7 advisory
- https://github.com/psf/requests package
- https://github.com/psf/requests/releases/tag/v2.32.4 web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/requests/PYSEC-2026-1872.yaml web
- https://pypi.org/project/requests web
- https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/#requests.Session.trust_env web
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/2 web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/03/11 web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/03/9 web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/04/1 web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/04/6 web