CVE-2014-1829: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Requests (aka python-requests) before 2.3.0 allows remote servers to obtain a netrc password by reading the Authorization header in a redirected request.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only
• Mageia Mageia: version 4.0 only
• Python Requests: up to and including 2.2.1

Published 2014-10-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.