[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#1066971: node-follow-redirects: CVE-2024-28849

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: node-follow-redirects
Version: 1.15.3+~1.14.2-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/1885
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for node-follow-redirects.

CVE-2024-28849[0]:
| follow-redirects is an open source, drop-in replacement for Node's
| `http` and `https` modules that automatically follows redirects. In
| affected versions follow-redirects only clears authorization header
| during cross-domain redirect, but keep the proxy-authentication
| header which contains credentials too. This vulnerability may lead
| to credentials leak, but has been addressed in version 1.15.6. Users
| are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this
| vulnerability.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-28849
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-28849
[1] https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/1885
[2] https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/security/advisories/GHSA-cxjh-pqwp-8mfp
[3] https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/commit/c4f847f85176991f95ab9c88af63b1294de8649b

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore