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

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

Database specific

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