follow-redirects: Custom Authentication Headers Leaked to Cross-Domain Redirect Targets (follow-redirects follow-redirects)

CVE-2026-40895

MEDIUM 6.9

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 0.49 % · percentile 42 (2026-10-31)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2026-04-21 19:59 UTC
Updated: 2026-09-10 12:05 UTC
Assigner: GitHub_M
NVD status: Modified

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Description

follow-redirects is an open source, drop-in replacement for Node's `http` and `https` modules that automatically follows redirects. Prior to 1.16.0, when an HTTP request follows a cross-domain redirect (301/302/307/308), follow-redirects only strips authorization, proxy-authorization, and cookie headers (matched by regex at index.js). Any custom authentication header (e.g., X-API-Key, X-Auth-Token, Api-Key, Token) is forwarded verbatim to the redirect target. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.16.0.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-212 — Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 4.0	MEDIUM 6.9	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	GitHub_M
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	redhat-SADP
CVSS 4.0	MEDIUM 6.9	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X	NVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · 0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c (Secondary)

Advisories

GHSA-r4q5-vmmm-2653 — follow-redirects leaks Custom Authentication Headers to Cross-Domain Redirect Targets

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-24472
GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-40895

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-1385 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-1256 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-1165 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-1094 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0958 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0901 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0810 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2026-AVI-0698 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:follow-redirects_project:follow-redirects:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* < 1.16.0

Affected products

Product	Versions
follow-redirects · follow-redirects	affected < 1.16.0

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD

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