CVE-2018-18074

El paquete Requests antes de la versión 2.20.0 para Python envía una cabecera de autorización HTTP a un URI http al recibir una redirección same-hostname https-to-http, lo que facilita que los atacantes remotos descibran las credenciales esnifando la red.

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.

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that supports modules, classes, exceptions, high-level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. The python27 packages provide a stable release of Python 2.7 with a number of additional utilities and database connectors for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Issues addressed include crlf injection, cross-host redirect, and incorrect parsing vulnerabilities.