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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202309-08">
    <title>Requests: Information Leak</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in Requests which could result in the disclosure of plaintext secrets.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">requests</product>
    <announced>2023-09-17</announced>
    <revised count="1">2023-09-17</revised>
    <bug>906970</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="dev-python/requests" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">2.31.0</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">2.31.0</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>Requests is an HTTP library for human beings.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>Requests is vulnerable to potentially leaking Proxy-Authorization headers to destination servers, specifically during redirects to an HTTPS origin with authentication credentials encoded into the URL.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="low">
        <p>Users&#39; proxy authentication secrets could be disclosed to parties beyond the used HTTP proxy server.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All Requests users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-python/requests-2.31.0"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32681">CVE-2023-32681</uri>
        <uri>GHSA-j8r2-6x86-q33q</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2023-09-17T06:32:25.550438Z">ajak</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2023-09-17T06:32:25.553604Z">sam</metadata>
</glsa>