urllib3 is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attack. The SSL certificate validation is omitted in certain HTTPS to HTTPS proxies. When an SSL Context is not given via proxy_config
, the hostname of the certificate is not verified in the initial connection.
github.com/advisories/GHSA-5phf-pp7p-vc2r
github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/8d65ea1ecf6e2cdc27d42124e587c1b83a3118b0
github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commits/main
github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-5phf-pp7p-vc2r
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4S65ZQVZ2ODGB52IC7VJDBUK4M5INCXL/
pypi.org/project/urllib3/1.26.4/
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-36
www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html