Bug 2491570 (CVE-2026-44889) - CVE-2026-44889 webob: python-webob: WebOb: Open Redirect vulnerability via HTTP Location header normalization
Summary: CVE-2026-44889 webob: python-webob: WebOb: Open Redirect vulnerability via HT...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-44889
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-06-22 22:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-25 14:33 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-22 22:03:11 UTC
WebOb provides objects for HTTP requests and responses. Prior to 1.8.10, the normalization of the HTTP Location header during a redirect is vulnerable to an open redirect: WebOb joins the redirect target to the request URI using Python's urljoin, and since Python 3.10 the underlying urlsplit strips ASCII tab, carriage return, and newline characters before parsing, so a redirect target containing such characters can be reinterpreted as a protocol-relative URL whose authority is an attacker-controlled host. This bypasses the CVE-2024-42353 fix that escaped a leading double slash, allowing an attacker who influences the redirect location to send users to an arbitrary external site instead of the intended one. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.8.10.


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