follow-redirects is an open source, drop-in replacement for Node's `http` and `https` modules that automatically follows redirects. Prior to 1.16.0, when an HTTP request follows a cross-domain redirect (301/302/307/308), follow-redirects only strips authorization, proxy-authorization, and cookie headers (matched by regex at index.js). Any custom authentication header (e.g., X-API-Key, X-Auth-Token, Api-Key, Token) is forwarded verbatim to the redirect target. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.16.0.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8632-1 advisory.

    Dennis Sepede discovered that follow-redirects did not properly remove custom authentication headers when     following cross-domain redirects. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive     authentication information, resulting in credential disclosure.

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

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

The version of IBM MQ Server running on the remote host is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 7277719 advisory.

  - follow-redirects is an open source, drop-in replacement for Node's `http` and `https` modules that     automatically follows redirects. Prior to 1.16.0, when an HTTP request follows a cross-domain redirect     (301/302/307/308), follow-redirects only strips authorization, proxy-authorization, and cookie headers     (matched by regex at index.js). Any custom authentication header (e.g., X-API-Key, X-Auth-Token, Api-Key,     Token) is forwarded verbatim to the redirect target. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.16.0.
    (CVE-2026-40895)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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. Prior to 1.16.0, when an HTTP request follows a cross-domain redirect     (301/302/307/308), follow-redirects only strips authorization, proxy-authorization, and cookie headers     (matched by regex at index.js). Any custom authentication header (e.g., X-API-Key, X-Auth-Token, Api-Key,     Token) is forwarded verbatim to the redirect target. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.16.0.
    (CVE-2026-40895)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
365406	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : follow-redirects vulnerability (USN-8632-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	medium
323894	IBM MQ 9.2 < 9.2.0.43 LTS / 9.3 < 10.0.0.0 CD / 9.3 < 9.3.0.41 LTS / 9.4 < 9.4.0.25 LTS (7277719)	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
309725	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-40895	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium

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