requests
2.31.0
28 Feb 2024
Requests is a full-featured HTTP utility module for Python. It provides a simple and encompassing API for issuing requests and accessing responses and metadata. Requests supports international domains and IRLs, keep-alive session pools, persistent cookies, SSL/TLS, HTTP authorization (basic and digest token), standard Content-Encoding compression schemes, Unicode content, multipart/* MIME content, connection timeouts, and is thread-safe.
security: **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 (https://github.com/psf/requests/security/advisories/GHSA-j8r2-6x86-q33q) and CVE-2023-32681 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32681).
