Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer in NPM follow-redirects prior to 1.14.8.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8217-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that follow-redirects did not properly protect sensitive user information during     redirects. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-0155)

    It was discovered that follow-redirects did not properly remove sensitive information before storage or     transfer. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-0536)

    It was discovered that follow-redirects did not properly validate URLs when handling certain inputs. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to redirect users to a malicious site, resulting in information     disclosure or phishing attacks. (CVE-2023-26159)

    It was discovered that follow-redirects did not properly clear proxy authentication headers during cross-     domain redirects. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause exposure of sensitive credentials.
    (CVE-2024-28849)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer in NPM follow-redirects prior to     1.14.8. (CVE-2022-0536)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer in NPM follow-redirects prior to
    1.14.8. (CVE-2022-0536)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
310958	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : follow-redirects vulnerabilities (USN-8217-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
229730	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-0536	Nessus	Misc.	medium
417728	SCA: security update for follow-redirects (GHSA-pw2r-vq6v-hr8c)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
417728	SCA: security update for follow-redirects (GHSA-pw2r-vq6v-hr8c)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium

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