Bug 1144907 (CVE-2014-1830)

Summary:	CVE-2014-1830 python-requests: Proxy-Authorization header leak
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Arun Babu Neelicattu <aneelica>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	aavati, abaron, aortega, apevec, ayoung, bkearney, chrisw, cpelland, dallan, edewata, erik, gkotton, grocha, katello-bugs, lhh, lpeer, markmc, mmccune, nlevinki, poelstra, rbean, rbryant, rfortier, rhos-maint, rhs-bugs, sagarun, sclewis, sisharma, smohan, ssaha, tjay, vbellur, wmealing, yeylon
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	requests 2.3.0	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2015-01-20 18:19:45 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1046627, 1046628, 1144910
Bug Blocks:	1046630

Description Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-09-22 01:02:00 UTC

It was discovered that the python-requests Proxy-Authorization header was never re-evaluated when a redirect occurs. The Proxy-Authorization header was sent to any new proxy or non-proxy destination as redirected.

References:

https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/1885#issuecomment-33793651

Comment 1 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-09-22 01:03:43 UTC

Upstream Issue:

https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/1885

Upstream Commit:

https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/commit/4d8cb3244e8e4f84b250c10a48e025f9a8bf6137

Comment 3 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-09-22 01:10:00 UTC

Victims Record:

https://github.com/victims/victims-cve-db/blob/master/database/python/2014/1830.yaml

Comment 4 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-09-22 01:15:41 UTC

Created python-requests tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1046627]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1144910]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1046628]

Comment 6 Vincent Danen 2015-01-20 18:19:45 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.