CVE-2024-28849
CVSS 3.1 Score 6.5 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Mar 14, 2024
Updated: Mar 23, 2024
CWE ID 200
Summary
CVE-2024-28849 is a vulnerability affecting the follow-redirects package, which is used as a drop-in replacement for Node.js's `http` and `https` modules to automatically follow redirects. In specific versions of the package, authorization headers are cleared during cross-domain redirects, but proxy-authentication headers containing credentials are not. This issue may lead to unintended credential exposure. Users are advised to upgrade to version 1.15.6 to address the vulnerability, and no known workarounds exist.
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