🛡️ CVE-2026-44889 on Ubuntu — python-webob
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.
Distribution advisory
This page covers CVE-2026-44889 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package python-webob. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.
How this vulnerability can be exploited
This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.
Affected software and timeline
Affected software: python-webob. Published on 22 June 2026 and last revised on 29 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
References
Details
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| python-webob | — | — |
References
Similar Threats
- Unknown openSUSE-SU-2026:21063-1
- Unknown ECHO-0b2f-27c4-24aa
- Unknown DEBIAN-CVE-2026-44889
- Unknown openSUSE-SU-2026:11041-1
- Medium OESA-2026-2679
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