# CVE-2022-23607: Unsafe handling of user-specified cookies in treq

- Also known as: GHSA-FHPF-PP6P-55QC, PYSEC-2022-26
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 22.1.0
- Published: 2022-02-01 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- twisted treq: fixed in 22.1.0
- treq (PyPI): fixed in 22.1.0
- treq (PyPI): from 21.1.0, fixed in 22.1.0

## Description

treq is an HTTP library inspired by requests but written on top of Twisted's Agents. Treq's request methods (`treq.get`, `treq.post`, etc.) and `treq.client.HTTPClient` constructor accept cookies as a dictionary. Such cookies are not bound to a single domain, and are therefore sent to *every* domain ("supercookies"). This can potentially cause sensitive information to leak upon an HTTP redirect to a different domain., e.g. should `https://example.com` redirect to `http://cloudstorageprovider.com` the latter will receive the cookie `session`. Treq 2021.1.0 and later bind cookies given to request methods (`treq.request`, `treq.get`, `HTTPClient.request`, `HTTPClient.get`, etc.) to the origin of the *url* parameter. Users are advised to upgrade. For users unable to upgrade Instead of passing a dictionary as the *cookies* argument, pass a `http.cookiejar.CookieJar` instance with properly domain- and scheme-scoped cookies in it.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on twisted treq, treq, upgrade to a fixed version (22.1.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/twisted/treq/security/advisories/GHSA-fhpf-pp6p-55qc
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/03/msg00025.html

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