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

0 Unknown 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

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

Database specific

cves_map

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

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2531-1.json"