PT-2026-39665 · Pypi · Urllib3
Christos-Spearbit
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Published
2026-05-11
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Updated
2026-06-03
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CVE-2026-44431
CVSS v4.0
8.2
High
| Vector | AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
urllib3 versions 1.23 through 2.6.x
Description
Sensitive headers, specifically
Authorization, Cookie, and Proxy-Authorization, are forwarded during cross-origin redirects when using the low-level API via ProxyManager.connection from url().urlopen(..., assert same host=False). While high-level APIs like urllib3.request(), PoolManager.request(), and ProxyManager.request() strip these headers by default, the low-level flow fails to do so.Recommendations
Upgrade to version 2.7.0 or later.
Avoid using the low-level redirect flow for cross-origin redirects or switch to
ProxyManager.request().Fix
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Affected Products
Urllib3