USN-2531-1

Matthew Daley discovered that Requests incorrectly handled cookies without host values when being redirected. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform session fixation or cookie stealing attacks.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / requests

Package

Name: requests
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/requests@2.2.1-1ubuntu0.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.2.1-1ubuntu0.2

Affected versions

1.*

1.2.3-1

2.*

2.0.0-1

2.2.1-1

2.2.1-1ubuntu0.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "python-requests",
            "binary_version": "2.2.1-1ubuntu0.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-requests",
            "binary_version": "2.2.1-1ubuntu0.2"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2015-2296",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}