urllib3 is an HTTP client library for Python. From 1.23 to before 2.7.0, cross-origin redirects followed from the low-level API via ProxyManager.connectionfromurl().urlopen(..., assertsamehost=False) still forward these sensitive headers. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.0.
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],
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