[Security] Bump requests from 2.30.0 to 2.31.0
Bumps requests from 2.30.0 to 2.31.0. This update includes a security fix.
Vulnerabilities fixed
Unintended leak of Proxy-Authorization header in requests
Impact
Since Requests v2.3.0, Requests has been vulnerable to potentially leaking
Proxy-Authorization
headers to destination servers, specifically during redirects to an HTTPS origin. This is a product of howrebuild_proxies
is used to recompute and reattach theProxy-Authorization
header to requests when redirected. Note this behavior has only been observed to affect proxied requests when credentials are supplied in the URL user information component (e.g.https://username:password@proxy:8080
).Current vulnerable behavior(s):
- HTTP → HTTPS: leak
- HTTPS → HTTP: no leak
- HTTPS → HTTPS: leak
- HTTP → HTTP: no leak
For HTTP connections sent through the proxy, the proxy will identify the header in the request itself and remove it prior to forwarding to the destination server. However when sent over HTTPS, the
Proxy-Authorization
header must be sent in the CONNECT request as the proxy has no visibility into further tunneled requests. This results in Requests forwarding the header to the destination server unintentionally, allowing a malicious actor to potentially exfiltrate those credentials.The reason this currently works for HTTPS connections in Requests is the
Proxy-Authorization
header is also handled by urllib3 with our usage of the ProxyManager in adapters.py withproxy_manager_for
. This will compute the required proxy headers inproxy_headers
and pass them to the Proxy Manager, avoiding attaching them directly to the Request object. This will be our preferred option going forward for default usage.Patches
Starting in Requests v2.31.0, Requests will no longer attach this header to redirects with an HTTPS destination. This should have no negative impacts on the default behavior of the library as the proxy credentials are already properly being handled by urllib3's ProxyManager.
For users with custom adapters, this may be potentially breaking if you were already working around this behavior. The previous functionality of
rebuild_proxies
doesn't make sense in any case, so we would encourage any users impacted to migrate any handling of Proxy-Authorization directly into their custom adapter.
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Patched versions: 2.31.0 Affected versions: >= 2.3.0, < 2.31.0
Release notes
Sourced from requests's releases.
v2.31.0
2.31.0 (2023-05-22)
Security
Versions of Requests between v2.3.0 and v2.30.0 are vulnerable to potential forwarding of
Proxy-Authorization
headers to destination servers when following HTTPS redirects.When proxies are defined with user info (https://user:pass@proxy:8080), Requests will construct a
Proxy-Authorization
header that is attached to the request to authenticate with the proxy.In cases where Requests receives a redirect response, it previously reattached the
Proxy-Authorization
header incorrectly, resulting in the value being sent through the tunneled connection to the destination server. Users who rely on defining their proxy credentials in the URL are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Requests 2.31.0+ to prevent unintentional leakage and rotate their proxy credentials once the change has been fully deployed.Users who do not use a proxy or do not supply their proxy credentials through the user information portion of their proxy URL are not subject to this vulnerability.
Full details can be read in our Github Security Advisory and CVE-2023-32681.
Changelog
Sourced from requests's changelog.
2.31.0 (2023-05-22)
Security
Versions of Requests between v2.3.0 and v2.30.0 are vulnerable to potential forwarding of
Proxy-Authorization
headers to destination servers when following HTTPS redirects.When proxies are defined with user info (https://user:pass@proxy:8080), Requests will construct a
Proxy-Authorization
header that is attached to the request to authenticate with the proxy.In cases where Requests receives a redirect response, it previously reattached the
Proxy-Authorization
header incorrectly, resulting in the value being sent through the tunneled connection to the destination server. Users who rely on defining their proxy credentials in the URL are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Requests 2.31.0+ to prevent unintentional leakage and rotate their proxy credentials once the change has been fully deployed.Users who do not use a proxy or do not supply their proxy credentials through the user information portion of their proxy URL are not subject to this vulnerability.
Full details can be read in our Github Security Advisory and CVE-2023-32681.