CVE-2024-28849

Publication date 14 March 2024

Last updated 29 April 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

follow-redirects is an open source, drop-in replacement for Node's `http` and `https` modules that automatically follows redirects. In affected versions follow-redirects only clears authorization header during cross-domain redirect, but keep the proxy-authentication header which contains credentials too. This vulnerability may lead to credentials leak, but has been addressed in version 1.15.6. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
node-follow-redirects	26.04 LTS resolute	Not affected
	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.14.9+~1.14.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.2.4-1ubuntu0.20.04.1~esm1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.2.4-1ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm1

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
node-follow-redirects	Upstream: c4f847f

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-8217-1
follow-redirects vulnerabilities
28 April 2026