CVE-2026-48856: Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability in Erlang OTP inets (httpc_response module) allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data. The httpc client forwards the…

PriorityP342medium6.5CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRLUINSUCHINAN

EPSS

0.34%

25.3th percentile

Sensitive Data Exposure vulnerability in Erlang OTP inets (httpc_response module) allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data. The httpc client forwards the Authorization and Proxy-Authorization request headers to redirect targets without checking whether the redirect crosses an origin boundary. httpc_response:redirect/2 constructs the redirected request by updating only the host field of the header record; all other fields (including authorization and proxy_authorization) are copied verbatim. The redirect target host is never compared against the original host. autoredirect defaults to true, so this affects all httpc callers that do not explicitly disable automatic redirects. An attacker who controls a server that the victim contacts via httpc can issue a cross-origin 3xx redirect to a server they also control. The Authorization header (including Basic credentials derived from URL userinfo via httpc_request:handle_user_info/2) is forwarded to the redirect target, allowing credential theft. The same applies to the Proxy-Authorization header. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/inets/src/http_client/httpc_response.erl. This issue affects OTP from 17.0 before 29.0.2, 28.5.0.2 and 27.3.4.13 corresponding to inets from 5.10 before 9.7.1, 9.6.2.2 and 9.3.2.6.

Affected

9 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
erlang	erlang_inets	>= 5.10 < 9.3.2.6	9.3.2.6
erlang	erlang_inets	>= 9.6 < 9.6.2.2	9.6.2.2
erlang	erlang_inets	>= 9.7 < 9.7.1	9.7.1
erlang	erlang_otp	>= 17.0 < 27.3.4.13	27.3.4.13
erlang	erlang_otp	>= 28.0 < 28.5.0.2	28.5.0.2
erlang	erlang_otp	>= 29.0 < 29.0.2	29.0.2
erlang	otp	>= 17.0 < *	*
erlang	otp	>= 5.10 < *	*
erlang	otp	>= 84adefa331c4159d432d22840663c38f155cd4c1 < 688d748d6f7a6a06b13b662a1d3de8af97079612	688d748d6f7a6a06b13b662a1d3de8af97079612

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvdv4.07.1HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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