CVE-2024-28849Proxy-Authorization header kept across hosts in follow-redirects
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 1.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 35% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
follow-redirects is an open source, drop-in replacement for Node's `http` and `https` modules that automatically follows redirects. In affected versions follow-redirects only clears authorization header during cross-domain redirect, but keep the proxy-authentication header which contains credentials too. This vulnerability may lead to credentials leak, but has been addressed in version 1.15.6. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Published
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.0% · top 35% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
follow-redirects · follow-redirects
- affected < 1.15.6
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmfollow-redirectsGHSA-cxjh-pqwp-8mfp (opens in a new tab)
References
References6
- https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/security/advisories/GHSA-cxjh-pqwp-8mfp (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/1885 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/commit/c4f847f85176991f95ab9c88af63b1294de8649b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://hackerone.com/reports/2390009 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#authentication-entries (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VOIF4EPQUCKDBEVTGRQDZ3CGTYQHPO7Z/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-0907 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-cxjh-pqwp-8mfp (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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