Bug 1751257 - wget: HTTP authentication leak in redirects
Summary: wget: HTTP authentication leak in redirects
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1751166
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-09-11 14:14 UTC by Cedric Buissart
Modified: 2021-02-16 21:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-10-14 07:52:25 UTC
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Description Cedric Buissart 2019-09-11 14:14:49 UTC 
wget is affected by a behavior similar to CVE-2018-1000007 (curl) : when given a `Authorization` header, wget will reuse it by default on the 2nd server if the first replies with a 3xx redirect.
This possibly mean a leak of credentials to the 2nd server.

Note: this does not happen when username/password are provided using the regular options (e.g.: --user & --password)
Comment 3 Cedric Buissart 2019-09-17 09:18:06 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Ryan Blakley
Comment 7 Cedric Buissart 2019-10-14 07:53:53 UTC 
Per upstream bug report, https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56909, no change is currently planned in wget.
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