CVE 8.2 HIGH

urllib3: Sensitive headers forwarded across origins in proxied low-level redirects_CVE-2026-44431

8.2 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 1.23 to before 2.7.0, cross-origin redirects followed from the low-level API via ProxyManager.connection_from_url().urlopen(..., assert_same_host=False) still forward these sensitive headers. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.0.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-44431
Source GitHub_M
Published May 13, 2026 at 15:20
Modified May 13, 2026 at 17:17

Affected Product

Vendor urllib3
Product urllib3
Version >= 1.23, < 2.7.0
Affected Versions urllib3 urllib3 >= 1.23, < 2.7.0

CWE Classification

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