GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-pg2w-x9wp-vw92 Python Requests Session Fixation
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2015-2296
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- requests
- Severity
- Moderate
- Reviewed
- 2023-07-31
Affected packages
• PyPI requests: >= 2.1.0, < 2.6.0 → fixed in 2.6.0
Description
The `resolve_redirects` function in sessions.py in requests 2.1.0 through 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to conduct session fixation attacks via a cookie without a host value in a redirect.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2015-2296 The resolve_redirects function in sessions.py in requests 2.1.0 through 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to conduct session fixation attacks… vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2296 advisory
- https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/commit/3bd8afbff29e50b38f889b2f688785a669b9aafc web
- https://github.com/psf/requests/commit/3bd8afbff29e50b38f889b2f688785a669b9aafc web
- https://github.com/psf/requests package
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/requests/PYSEC-2015-17.yaml web
- https://warehouse.python.org/project/requests/2.6.0 web
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0120.html web
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153594.html web
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:133 web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/14/4 web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/15/1 web
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2531-1 web