urllib may leak sensitive HTTP headers to a third-party web site

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
networking, security

Research direction

The issue references urllib, BPO 33661, and PR #11292; start by reviewing the linked pull request and the related urllib library code. Done means preventing sensitive HTTP headers from being leaked to third-party websites.

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Description

3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 stdlib type-security
BPO 33661
Nosy @orsenthil, @jwilk, @alex, @vadmium, @native-api, @artem-smotrakov, @eamanu, @kyoshidajp, @tirkarthi, @epicfaace
PRs
  • python/cpython#11292
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    GitHub fields:

    assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2018-05-27.14:20:06.497>
labels = ['type-security', 'library']
title = 'urllib may leak sensitive HTTP headers to a third-party web site'
updated_at = <Date 2019-08-14.04:01:33.275>
user = 'https://github.com/artem-smotrakov'

    bugs.python.org fields:

    activity = <Date 2019-08-14.04:01:33.275>
actor = 'epicfaace'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2018-05-27.14:20:06.497>
creator = 'artem.smotrakov'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 33661
keywords = ['patch']
message_count = 11.0
messages = ['317793', '317818', '317824', '318453', '319880', '332381', '332408', '332561', '332571', '332719', '349640']
nosy_count = 10.0
nosy_names = ['orsenthil', 'jwilk', 'alex', 'martin.panter', 'Ivan.Pozdeev', 'artem.smotrakov', 'eamanu', 'kyoshidajp', 'xtreak', 'epicfaace']
pr_nums = ['11292']
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'patch review'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'security'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue33661'
versions = ['Python 3.5']

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