WebOb: Location header normalization during redirect leads to open redirect
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Spoofing
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 1 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-601.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pylons | webob | before 1.8.10 | 1.8.10 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | webob (PyPI) | before 1.8.10 | 1.8.10 | Patch available | GHSA-fh3h-vg37-cc95 |
- webob VendorPylons Affected before 1.8.10 Fixed in 1.8.10 Patch available CNA
- webob (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 1.8.10 Fixed in 1.8.10 Patch available GHSA-fh3h-vg37-cc95
Remediation
- Fix · CNA webob (Pylons) Fixed in 1.8.10
- Fix · GHSA-fh3h-vg37-cc95 webob (PyPI) Fixed in 1.8.10 Advisory →
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
Not affected: 7 products
- Red Hat Ceph Storage 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0
- Red Hat Quay 3
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-44889
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-fh3h-vg37-cc95
References
Advisory 2
Other 6
- https://github.com/Pylons/webob/security/advisories/GHSA-mg3v-6m49-jhp3
- https://github.com/Pylons/webob/commit/1f681a4f17fc10777ef861e8b43ecb26053bc539
- https://github.com/Pylons/webob/commit/2b9fbedafb31180c910cf8526e9ea72b4603d0bc
- https://github.com/Pylons/webob
- https://github.com/Pylons/webob/releases/tag/1.8.10
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/webob/PYSEC-2026-251.yaml
More Pylons Webob vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-28340 WebOb's location header normalization during redirect leads to open redirect CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
Sources
- CVE-2026-44889 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-44889 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-fh3h-vg37-cc95 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-44889 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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