`HTTPPasswordMgr` can send saved HTTPS credentials via HTTP because of incorrect scheme matching
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- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Fix
- Fixed in 3.10.22, 3.11.17, 3.12.15, 3.13.16, 3.14.8, and 1 more
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
- Exploitation: poc
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: partial
Summary
The HTTPPasswordMgr class in the urllib.request module, along with its subclasses HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm and HTTPPasswordMgrWithPriorAuth, did not take the URL scheme into account when matching stored credentials against a requested URL. Credentials added for an https:// URL were also used for requests to the same host over http://, so an attacker able to redirect or downgrade a client to plain HTTP (for example, via an HTTPS-to-HTTP redirect or an on-path position) could capture credentials in cleartext. Credentials added for http:// URLs could likewise be sent over https://. Credential matching is now scoped by URL scheme. Credentials registered with a URL that includes a scheme are only used for requests with the same scheme. Credentials registered with a bare authority (such as example.com or example.com:8080) continue to match any scheme, preserving compatibility with existing code, including proxy authentication. Users who cannot upgrade immediately can mitigate by ensuring that applications never make plain http:// requests to hosts for which credentials are registered, for example by not following redirects to http:// URLs.
Timeline
- CVE published
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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Affected versions
- Python Software Foundation CPython
fixed in 3.10.22; From 3.11.0 · fixed in 3.11.17; From 3.12.0 · fixed in 3.12.15; From 3.13.0 · fixed in 3.13.16; From 3.14.0 · fixed in 3.14.8; From 3.15.0a1 · fixed in 3.15.0rc2
- libpythonBitnami
fixed in 3.10.22; From 3.11.0 · fixed in 3.11.17; From 3.12.0 · fixed in 3.12.15; From 3.13.0 · fixed in 3.13.16; From 3.14.0 · fixed in 3.14.8
- pythonBitnami
fixed in 3.10.22; From 3.11.0 · fixed in 3.11.17; From 3.12.0 · fixed in 3.12.15; From 3.13.0 · fixed in 3.13.16; From 3.14.0 · fixed in 3.14.8
- python-minBitnami
fixed in 3.10.22; From 3.11.0 · fixed in 3.11.17; From 3.12.0 · fixed in 3.12.15; From 3.13.0 · fixed in 3.13.16; From 3.14.0 · fixed in 3.14.8