urllib3 up to 1.24.1 Incomplete Fix CVE-2018-20060 improper authorization

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in urllib3 up to 1.24.1. Affected is an unknown function of the component Incomplete Fix CVE-2018-20060. This manipulation causes improper authorization. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2018-25091. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in urllib3 up to 1.24.1. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Incomplete Fix CVE-2018-20060. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

urllib3 before 1.24.2 does not remove the authorization HTTP header when following a cross-origin redirect (i.e., a redirect that differs in host, port, or scheme). This can allow for credentials in the authorization header to be exposed to unintended hosts or transmitted in cleartext. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-20060 (which was case-sensitive).

The weakness was disclosed 10/16/2023 as 1510. The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-25091 since 10/15/2023. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1548.002 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 1.24.2 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch adb358f8e06865406d1f05e581a16cbea2136fbc is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Class: Improper authorization
CWE: CWE-285 / CWE-266
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: urllib3 1.24.2
Patch: adb358f8e06865406d1f05e581a16cbea2136fbc

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Sourcesinfo

Product: github.com

Advisory: 1510
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2018-25091 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-25091
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-242197

Entryinfo

Created: 10/16/2023 07:42
Updated: 11/02/2023 15:05
Changes: 10/16/2023 07:42 (43), 11/02/2023 15:05 (11)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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