psf/requests · Security
Requests vulnerable to .netrc credentials leak via malicious URLs
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-9hjg-9r4m-mvj7
- CVE ID
- CVE-2024-47081
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Description
Impact
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.
Workarounds
For older versions of Requests, use of the .netrc file can be disabled with trust_env=False on your Requests Session (docs).
References
https://github.com/psf/requests/pull/6965 https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/2
CWEs
- CWE-522 · Insufficiently Protected Credentials
References
- https://github.com/psf/requests/security/advisories/GHSA-9hjg-9r4m-mvj7 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47081 ↗
- https://github.com/psf/requests/pull/6965 ↗
- https://github.com/psf/requests/commit/96ba401c1296ab1dda74a2365ef36d88f7d144ef ↗
- https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/#requests.Session.trust_env ↗
- https://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 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9hjg-9r4m-mvj7 ↗
- https://github.com/psf/requests ↗
- https://github.com/psf/requests/releases/tag/v2.32.4 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/requests/PYSEC-2026-1872.yaml ↗
- https://pypi.org/project/requests ↗