1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-3790-1

USN-3790-1: Requests vulnerability

Publication date

15 October 2018

Overview

Requests could be made to expose sensitive information if it received a specially crafted HTTP header.

Releases

Packages

  • requests - elegant and simple HTTP library for Python

Details

It was discovered that Requests incorrectly handled certain HTTP headers.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information.

It was discovered that Requests incorrectly handled certain HTTP headers.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
18.04 bionic python-requests –  2.18.4-2ubuntu0.1
python3-requests –  2.18.4-2ubuntu0.1
16.04 xenial python-requests –  2.9.1-3ubuntu0.1
python3-requests –  2.9.1-3ubuntu0.1
14.04 trusty python-requests –  2.2.1-1ubuntu0.4
python-requests-whl –  2.2.1-1ubuntu0.4
python3-requests –  2.2.1-1ubuntu0.4

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