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CVE-2022-31042

Failure to strip the Cookie header on change in host or HTTP downgrade in Guzzle

CVSS 7.5 HIGHEPSS 1.8%CWE-200
In short

Guzzle fails to remove sensitive Cookie headers when a website redirects to a different domain or from HTTPS to HTTP, potentially exposing authentication tokens and session data to untrusted servers.

Technical detail

When Guzzle follows HTTP redirects (3xx responses) to a different host or downgrades from HTTPS to HTTP, manually-set Cookie headers are not stripped before the redirect request, violating the same-origin policy. Only cookies managed by Guzzle's middleware were previously removed; the vulnerability affects manually-added headers. Attackers can trick applications into sending credentials to malicious domains via redirect chains.

Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.
Guzzle is an open source PHP HTTP client. In affected versions the `Cookie` headers on requests are sensitive information. On making a request using the `https` scheme to a server which responds with a redirect to a URI with the `http` scheme, or on making a request to a server which responds with a redirect to a a URI to a different host, we should not forward the `Cookie` header on. Prior to this fix, only cookies that were managed by our cookie middleware would be safely removed, and any `Cookie` header manually added to the initial request would not be stripped. We now always strip it, and allow the cookie middleware to re-add any cookies that it deems should be there. Affected Guzzle 7 users should upgrade to Guzzle 7.4.4 as soon as possible. Affected users using any earlier series of Guzzle should upgrade to Guzzle 6.5.7 or 7.4.4. Users unable to upgrade may consider an alternative approach to use your own redirect middleware, rather than ours. If you do not require or expect redirects to be followed, one should simply disable redirects all together.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
guzzle · guzzle

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