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🛡️ CVE-2024-47081 — requests

🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-522 NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
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Description

Requests vulnerable to .netrc credentials leak via malicious URLs

Impact

Due to a URL parsing issue, Requests releases prior to 2.32.4 may leak .netrc credentials to third parties for specific maliciously-crafted URLs.

Workarounds

For older versions of Requests, use of the .netrc file can be disabled with trust_env=False on your Requests Session ([docs](https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/#requests.Session.trust_env)).

References

https://github.com/psf/requests/pull/6965

https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/2

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-47081 is classified as CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials. Credentials are stored or transmitted with protection too weak for what they unlock.

Affected software

CVE-2024-47081 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • requests (fixed in 2.32.4)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 9 June 2025 and last revised on 7 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
requests.readthedocs.io (Web)
seclists.org (Web)
seclists.org (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

requests has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials) in other software:

CVE-2024-47081 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-522
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-06-09
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-07

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
requests — 2.32.4
unknown — —

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