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ALSA-2024:8842 Not scored

Moderate: python3.12-urllib3 security update

urllib3 is a powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python. urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python standard libraries: • Thread safety. • Connection pooling. • Client-side SSL/TLS verification. • File uploads with multipart encoding. • Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects. • Support for gzip, deflate, brotli, and zstd encoding. • Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS. • 100% test coverage. Security Fix(es): * urllib3: proxy-authorization request header is not stripped during cross-origin redirects (CVE-2024-37891) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published November 5, 2024
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 python3.12-urllib3

03 / CONNECTIONS

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04 / EVIDENCE

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Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2024:8842

urllib3 is a powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python. urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python standard libraries: • Thread safety. • Connection pooling. • Client-side SSL/TLS verification. • File uploads with multipart encoding. • Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects. • Support for gzip, deflate, brotli, and zstd encoding. • Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS. • 100% test coverage. Security Fix(es): * urllib3: proxy-authorization request header is not stripped during cross-origin redirects (CVE-2024-37891) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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05 / REFERENCES

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