Description
WebOb provides objects for HTTP requests and responses. Prior to 1.8.10, the normalization of the HTTP Location header during a redirect is vulnerable to an open redirect: WebOb joins the redirect target to the request URI using Python's urljoin, and since Python 3.10 the underlying urlsplit strips ASCII tab, carriage return, and newline characters before parsing, so a redirect target containing such characters can be reinterpreted as a protocol-relative URL whose authority is an attacker-controlled host. This bypasses the CVE-2024-42353 fix that escaped a leading double slash, allowing an attacker who influences the redirect location to send users to an arbitrary external site instead of the intended one. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.8.10.
Published: 2026-06-22
Score: 6.1 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-fh3h-vg37-cc95 WebOb: Location header normalization during redirect leads to open redirect - again
History

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:15:00 +0000

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Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Moderate


Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:30:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Pylons
Pylons webob
Vendors & Products Pylons
Pylons webob

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0000

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Description WebOb provides objects for HTTP requests and responses. Prior to 1.8.10, the normalization of the HTTP Location header during a redirect is vulnerable to an open redirect: WebOb joins the redirect target to the request URI using Python's urljoin, and since Python 3.10 the underlying urlsplit strips ASCII tab, carriage return, and newline characters before parsing, so a redirect target containing such characters can be reinterpreted as a protocol-relative URL whose authority is an attacker-controlled host. This bypasses the CVE-2024-42353 fix that escaped a leading double slash, allowing an attacker who influences the redirect location to send users to an arbitrary external site instead of the intended one. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.8.10.
Title WebOb: Location header normalization during redirect leads to open redirect
Weaknesses CWE-601
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-06-23T15:05:27.698Z

Reserved: 2026-05-07T21:50:33.545Z

Link: CVE-2026-44889

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-06-23T14:58:52.123Z

cve-icon NVD

No data.

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-06-22T21:30:11Z

Links: CVE-2026-44889 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-06-23T21:03:09Z

Weaknesses