CVE-2022-21712

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    CVE-2022-21712

    Published: 7 Feb 2022Last Modified: 22 Oct 2026

    Summary: Cookie and header exposure in twisted

    Details: twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. In affected versions twisted exposes cookies and authorization headers when following cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the `twited.web.RedirectAgent` and `twisted.web. BrowserLikeRedirectAgent` functions. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds.

    References: https://github.com/twisted/twisted/releases/tag/twisted-22.1.0, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/21xxx/CVE-2022-21712.json, https://github.com/twisted/twisted/security/advisories/GHSA-92x2-jw7w-xvvx, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7U6KYDTOLPICAVSR34G2WRYLFBD2YW5K/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GLKHA6WREIVAMBQD7KKWYHPHGGNKMAG6/, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21712, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202301-02, https://github.com/twisted/twisted/commit/af8fe78542a6f2bf2235ccee8158d9c88d31e8e2, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/02/msg00021.html

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 7702733284a283132501e38f5efdd3c77dfb0112
    Fixed -45d463c02ebbbdcbe18b3807419422101538ffca

    Affected versions

    9.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
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    Availability
    None
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