Authorization Header Leakage in scrapy/scrapy on Scheme Change Redirects (scrapy scrapy/scrapy)

CVE-2024-1968
HIGH 7.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.69 % · percentile 53 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
@huntr_ai
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In scrapy/scrapy, an issue was identified where the Authorization header is not removed during redirects that only change the scheme (e.g., HTTPS to HTTP) but remain within the same domain. This behavior contravenes the Fetch standard, which mandates the removal of Authorization headers in cross-origin requests when the scheme, host, or port changes. Consequently, when a redirect downgrades from HTTPS to HTTP, the Authorization header may be inadvertently exposed in plaintext, leading to potential sensitive information disclosure to unauthorized actors. The flaw is located in the _build_redirect_request function of the redirect middleware.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N@huntr_ai
CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · security@huntr.dev (Secondary)

Advisories

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
scrapy · scrapy/scrapyaffected unspecified < 2.11.2

Sources

SourceLicence
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