CVE-2024-28849 | Proxy-Authorization header kept across hosts in follow-redirects

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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.

Published: 2024-03-14 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2024-28849 is rated High Exploit Risk (61.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.04%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2024-28849

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-28849

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 1.11% 1.04% -0.06%
2 2026-05-23 0.92% 1.11% +0.19%
3 2026-05-22 — 0.92% —

Full EPSS history (18 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-28849

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-28849

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2024-28849

GHSA-cxjh-pqwp-8mfp · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: npm — follow-redirects' Proxy-Authorization header kept across hosts

OS Trackers for CVE-2024-28849

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2024-28849 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (node-follow-redirects), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-28849
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-28849
suse medium CVE-2024-28849 severity moderate: SUSE including 54 source package names (corepack18, corepack20, …), 328 product×package rows across 39 product lines (SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS, … (39 product lines)): Known Not Affected 252, Will Not Fix 65, Fixed 11. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-28849/
ubuntu medium CVE-2024-28849 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (node-follow-redirects), 9 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, upstream): needs-triage 6, ignored 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-28849

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-28849

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
follow-redirects_project follow-redirects < 1.15.6 cpe:2.3:a:follow-redirects_project:follow-redirects:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

References for CVE-2024-28849

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