CVE-2026-40895: falha de média gravidade em follow-redirects
follow-redirects: Custom Authentication Headers Leaked to Cross-Domain Redirect Targets
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ssvc Trackcvss 6.9epss 0.5%
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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Referências
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13826https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:14937https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16476https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16532https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16534https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16535https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16542https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16874https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17657https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17699https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17789https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19109