# CVE-2026-44889: WebOb: Location header normalization during redirect leads to open redirect

- Also known as: GHSA-FH3H-VG37-CC95, PYSEC-2026-251
- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.8.10
- Published: 2026-06-22 · Updated: 2026-06-23

## Affected

- Pylons webob: fixed in 1.8.10
- webob (PyPI): fixed in 1.8.10

## Description

WebOb provides objects for HTTP requests and responses. Prior to 1.8.10, the normalization of the HTTP Location header during a redirect is vulnerable to an open redirect: WebOb joins the redirect target to the request URI using Python's urljoin, and since Python 3.10 the underlying urlsplit strips ASCII tab, carriage return, and newline characters before parsing, so a redirect target containing such characters can be reinterpreted as a protocol-relative URL whose authority is an attacker-controlled host. This bypasses the CVE-2024-42353 fix that escaped a leading double slash, allowing an attacker who influences the redirect location to send users to an arbitrary external site instead of the intended one. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.8.10.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Pylons webob, webob, upgrade to a fixed version (1.8.10) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/Pylons/webob/security/advisories/GHSA-fh3h-vg37-cc95

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