RLSA-2024:9457

RLSA-2024:9457 · Moderate: python3.12-urllib3 security update

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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.

Fix available

Published

2025-03-17T20:16:49.937392Z

Updated

2026-02-04T17:45:04.356311Z

Stack: system

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