CVE-2014-1829 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Requests

What is CVE-2014-1829?

CVE-2014-1829 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 15 Oct 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Requests (aka python-requests) before 2.3.0 allows remote servers to obtain a netrc password by reading the Authorization header in a redirected request.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1829?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including requests. It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Mageia Mageia, Python Requests.

How do I fix CVE-2014-1829?

Upgrade requests to 2.3.0 or later.

Is CVE-2014-1829 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1829 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1829, ECHO-3146-7a27-2d5a, GHSA-cfj3-7x9c-4p3h, PYSEC-2014-13, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1829.