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Vulnerability advisory

GHSA-pg2w-x9wp-vw92

Python Requests Session Fixation

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Also known as CVE-2015-2296PYSEC-2015-17

Severity

Severity not reported.

Affected versions

requests PyPI

All requests advisories →
AffectedFixed in
2.1.0 to before 2.6.02.6.0Advisories →
Also listed as affected (12)

Description

The resolve_redirects function in sessions.py in requests 2.1.0 through 2.5.3 allows remote attackers to conduct session fixation attacks via a cookie without a host value in a redirect.

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