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.

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.

  - 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. (CVE-2024-28849)

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

The version of reaper installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-28849 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2024-28849)

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:3781 advisory.

    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building, deploying and managing     IT automation at scale. IT Managers can provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to     individual teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to write tasks that leverage existing     knowledge without the overhead. Ansible Automation Platform makes it possible for users across an     organization to share, vet, and manage automation content by means of a simple, powerful, and agentless     language.

    Security Fix(es):

    * automation-controller: aiohttp: DoS when trying to parse malformed POST requests (CVE-2024-30251)
    * automation-controller: Django: Potential regular expression denial-of-service in     django.utils.text.Truncator.words() (CVE-2024-27351)
    * automation-controller: pip: Mercurial configuration injectable in repo revision when installing via pip     (CVE-2023-5752)
    * automation-controller: pydantic: regular expression denial of service via crafted email string     (CVE-2024-3772)
    * automation-hub, python3/python39-galaxy-ng: follow-redirects: Possible credential leak (CVE-2024-28849)
    * python3/python39-aiohttp: DoS when trying to parse malformed POST requests (CVE-2024-30251)
    * python3/python39-aiohttp: XSS on index pages for static file handling (CVE-2024-27306)
    * python3/python39-black: ReDoS via the lines_with_leading_tabs_expanded() function in strings.py file     (CVE-2024-21503)
    * python3/python39-cryptography: NULL pointer dereference with pkcs12.serialize_key_and_certificates when     called with a non-matching certificate and private key and an hmac_hash override (CVE-2024-26130)
    * python3/python39-cryptography: NULL-dereference when loading PKCS7 certificates (CVE-2023-49083)
    * python3/python39-cryptography: NULL-dereference when loading PKCS7 certificates (CVE-2023-49083)
    * python3/python39-gunicorn: HTTP Request Smuggling due to improper validation of Transfer-Encoding     headers (CVE-2024-1135)
    * python3/python39-idna: potential DoS via resource consumption via specially crafted inputs to     idna.encode() (CVE-2024-3651)
    * python3/python39-jinja2: accepts keys containing non-attribute characters (CVE-2024-34064)
    * python3/python39-pillow: buffer overflow in _imagingcms.c (CVE-2024-28219)
    * python3/python39-pillow: Arbitrary Code Execution via the environment parameter (CVE-2023-50447)
    * python3/python39-pydantic: regular expression denial of service via crafted email string (CVE-2024-3772)
    * python3/python39-requests: subsequent requests to the same host ignore cert verification     (CVE-2024-35195)
    * python3/python39-social-auth-app-django: Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity in social-auth-app-django     (CVE-2024-32879)
    * python3/python39-sqlparse: parsing heavily nested list leads to denial of service (CVE-2024-4340)
    * receptor: golang: crypto/x509: Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm     (CVE-2024-24783)
    * receptor: golang: net/http, x/net/http2: unlimited number of CONTINUATION frames causes DoS     (CVE-2023-45288)
    * receptor: golang: net/http: memory exhaustion in Request.ParseMultipartForm (CVE-2023-45290)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Updates and fixes for automation controller:
    * Fixed Redis connection leak on version 4.5.6 (AAP-24286)
    * automation-controller has been updated to 4.5.7

    Updates and fixes for automation hub:
    * Fixed repository sync issues (AAH-3111, AAH-3218)
    * automation-hub/python3-galaxy-ng/python39-galaxy-ng have been updated to 4.9.2

    Additional changes:
    * ansible-core has been updated to 2.15.11
    * automation-eda-controller has been updated to 1.0.7
    * installer and setup have been updated to 2.4-7
    * receptor has been updated to 1.4.8

    For more details about the updates and fixes included in this release, refer to the Release Notes.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-db558f6fb2 advisory.

    Fix CVE-2024-28849.

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

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

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
227788	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-28849	Nessus	Misc.	medium
201635	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: reaper (CVE-2024-28849)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	medium
200272	RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2024:3781)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
194710	Fedora 40 : pgadmin4 (2024-db558f6fb2)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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