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Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1334
Advisory Release Date: 2019-10-21 18:01 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-10-23 23:59 Pacific
Severity:
Low
References:
CVE-2018-18074
Issue Overview:
A credentials-exposure flaw was found in python-requests, where if a request with authentication is redirected (302) from an HTTPS endpoint to an HTTP endpoint on the same host, the Authorization header is not stripped and the credentials can be read in plain text. A man-in-the-middle attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain a user's valid credentials.(CVE-2018-18074)
Affected Packages:
python-requests
Issue Correction:
Run yum update python-requests to update your system.
New Packages:
noarch:
python-requests-2.6.0-7.amzn2.noarch
src:
python-requests-2.6.0-7.amzn2.src