CVE-2024-28849

Name	CVE-2024-28849
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	1066971

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
node-follow-redirects (PTS)	bullseye	1.13.1-1+deb11u1	vulnerable
	bookworm	1.15.2+~1.14.1-1	vulnerable
	sid, trixie	1.15.9+~1.14.4-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
node-follow-redirects	source	(unstable)	1.15.6+~1.14.4-1			1066971

Notes

[bookworm] - node-follow-redirects <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - node-follow-redirects <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - node-follow-redirects <postponed> (Follow-up to CVE-2022-0155)
https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/security/advisories/GHSA-cxjh-pqwp-8mfp
https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/1885
https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/commit/c4f847f85176991f95ab9c88af63b1294de8649b (v1.15.6)