CVE-2024-28849 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Follow-redirects
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.9%
top 24.06%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 14
Latest updateJan 15
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages3 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
4OSV▶
CVE-2024-28849: follow-redirects is an open source, drop-in replacement for Node's `http` and `https` modules that automatically follows redirects↗2024-03-14
📋Vendor Advisories
6Oracle▶
Oracle Oracle Communications Applications Risk Matrix: Core (Apache Commons Configuration) — CVE-2024-28849↗2025-01-15
Oracle▶
Oracle Oracle Blockchain Platform Risk Matrix: Blockchain Cloud Service Console (follow-redirects) — CVE-2024-28849↗2024-10-15
Oracle▶
Oracle Oracle Communications Risk Matrix: Configuration (follow-redirects) — CVE-2024-28849↗2024-07-15