MediumGHSA-pw2r-vq6v-hr8cCVE-2022-0536

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in follow-redirects

Published 10 Feb 2022 · Updated 10 Sept 2026

Affected package

follow-redirectsnpm

Affected: <1.14.8
Fixed in: 1.14.8

Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:npm install follow-redirects@1.14.8

Details

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in NPM follow-redirects prior to 1.14.8.

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References

Advisorynvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0536
Linkgithub.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/commit/62e546a99c07c3ee5e4e0718c84a6ca127c5c445
Packagegithub.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects
Linkhuntr.dev/bounties/7cf2bf90-52da-4d59-8028-a73b132de0db

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