{"id":81656,"date":"2026-07-07T22:46:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-7017-httptiny-versions-before-0-095-for-perl-forward-credential-headers-to-cross-origin-redirect-targets\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T22:46:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:16:55","slug":"cve-2026-7017-httptiny-versions-before-0-095-for-perl-forward-credential-headers-to-cross-origin-redirect-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-7017-httptiny-versions-before-0-095-for-perl-forward-credential-headers-to-cross-origin-redirect-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-7017 &#8211; HTTP::Tiny versions before 0.095 for Perl forward credential headers to cross-origin redirect targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-7017<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 7, 2026, 7:16 p.m. | 31\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :HTTP::Tiny versions before 0.095 for Perl forward credential headers to cross-origin redirect targets.<\/p>\n<p>When the server returns a 3xx redirect, `_maybe_redirect` follows the `Location:` header and `_prepare_headers_and_cb` re-merges the caller&#8217;s `headers` argument into the new request, without checking whether the redirect target shares an origin with the original URL. Caller-supplied `Authorization`, `Cookie` and `Proxy-Authorization` headers are therefore re-sent to whatever host the redirect names, across scheme, host or port boundaries, and including `https` to `http` downgrades that expose them in plaintext on the wire.<\/p>\n<p>The HTTP::Tiny POD note that &#8220;Authorization headers will not be included in a redirected request&#8221; applied only to the URL-userinfo Basic-auth path, not to headers passed explicitly by the caller.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 7.1 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-7017 Published : July 7, 2026, 7:16 p.m. | 31\u00a0minutes ago Description :HTTP::Tiny versions before 0.095 for Perl forward credential headers to cross-origin redirect targets. When the server returns a 3xx redirect, `_maybe_redirect` follows the `Location:` header and `_prepare_headers_and_cb` re-merges the caller&#8217;s `headers` argument into the new request, without checking whether the redirect &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}