USN-7568-1: Requests vulnerabilities

Publication date

16 June 2025

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Requests.


Packages

  • requests - elegant and simple HTTP library for Python

Details

Dennis Brinkrolf and Tobias Funke discovered that Requests did not
correctly handle certain HTTP headers. A remote attacker could possibly
use this issue to leak sensitive information. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-32681)

Juho Forsén discovered that Requests did not correctly parse URLs. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive
information. (CVE-2024-47081)

Dennis Brinkrolf and Tobias Funke discovered that Requests did not
correctly handle certain HTTP headers. A remote attacker could possibly
use this issue to leak sensitive information. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-32681)

Juho Forsén discovered that Requests did not correctly parse URLs. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive
information. (CVE-2024-47081)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
25.04 plucky python3-requests –  2.32.3+dfsg-4ubuntu1.1
24.10 oracular python3-requests –  2.32.3+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1
24.04 noble python3-requests –  2.31.0+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1
22.04 jammy python3-requests –  2.25.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.3
20.04 focal python3-requests –  2.22.0-2ubuntu1.1+esm1  
18.04 bionic python-requests –  2.18.4-2ubuntu0.1+esm2  
python3-requests –  2.18.4-2ubuntu0.1+esm2  
16.04 xenial python-requests –  2.9.1-3ubuntu0.1+esm2  
python3-requests –  2.9.1-3ubuntu0.1+esm2  
14.04 trusty python-requests –  2.2.1-1ubuntu0.4+esm1  
python-requests-whl –  2.2.1-1ubuntu0.4+esm1  
python3-requests –  2.2.1-1ubuntu0.4+esm1  

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