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 via a cookie without a host value in a redirect.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.8 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2015-03-18

Last modified

2024-08-06

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Mageia (Mageia Project)
• Requests (Python)

References

• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0120.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153594.html
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:133
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/14/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/15/1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2531-1
• https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/commit/3bd8afbff29e50b38f889b2f688785a669b9aafc
• https://warehouse.python.org/project/requests/2.6.0/