CVE-2024-47081

Requests is a HTTP library. Due to a URL parsing issue, Requests releases prior to 2.32.4 may leak .netrc credentials to third parties for specific maliciously-crafted URLs. Users should upgrade to version 2.32.4 to receive a fix. For older versions of Requests, use of the .netrc file can be disabled with trust_env=False on ones Requests Session.

Weakness

The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/102.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/474.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/50.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/509.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/551.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/555.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/560.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/561.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/600.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/644.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/645.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/652.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/653.html

References

• https://github.com/psf/requests/commit/96ba401c1296ab1dda74a2365ef36d88f7d144ef
• https://github.com/psf/requests/pull/6965
• https://github.com/psf/requests/security/advisories/GHSA-9hjg-9r4m-mvj7
• https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/#requests.Session.trust_env
• https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/2
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/03/11
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/03/9
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/04/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/04/6