CVE-2024-28849

Aliases:GHSA-cxjh-pqwp-8mfpDEBIAN-CVE-2024-28849
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 6
Analyzed
Published: 14 Mar 2024, 17:07
Last modified:13 Feb 2025, 17:47

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
36/100
CVSS Score
6.5 MEDIUM
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
1.04% LOW
1% probability +0.37%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

14 Mar 2024, 17:07
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
13 Feb 2025, 17:47
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 1.04%• Percentile: 62%

Techniques & Countermeasures

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

    The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Systems

  • debian•node-follow-redirects

    all | all | < 1.15.6+~1.14.4-1 | < 1.15.6+~1.14.4-1

  • follow-redirects_project•follow-redirects

    < 1.15.6

  • follow-redirects•follow-redirects

    < 1.15.6

  • Npm•follow-redirects

    < 1.15.6

References (10)