INFSA-2024:8842: python3.12-urllib3 security update

Information about definition

Identificator: INFSA-2024:8842

Type: security

Release date: 2024-11-12 06:44:19 UTC

Information about package

urllib3 is a powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python. urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python standard libraries: • Thread safety. • Connection pooling. • Client-side SSL/TLS verification. • File uploads with multipart encoding. • Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects. • Support for gzip, deflate, brotli, and zstd encoding. • Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS. • 100% test coverage.

Vulnerabilities description

  • CVE-2024-37891

    A flaw was found in urllib3, an HTTP client library for Python. In certain configurations, urllib3 does not treat the Proxy-Authorization HTTP header as one carrying authentication material. This issue results in not stripping the header on cross-origin redirects.

Severity level

CVE Score CVSS 2.0 Score CVSS 3.x Score CVSS 4.0
no information 4.4 no information
Critical, important, moderate, low

Updated packages