{"id":"CVE-2026-44979","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-44979","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:52:45.199Z","title":"Prior to 18.1.1, when @hapi/wreck follows a 3xx redirect to a different hostname, only the Authorization and Cookie headers are stripped, and the standard credential header Proxy-Authorization is forwarded intact to the redirect target, potentially…","description":"@hapi/wreck is an HTTP client utility. Prior to 18.1.1, when @hapi/wreck follows a 3xx redirect to a different hostname, only the Authorization and Cookie headers are stripped, and the standard credential header Proxy-Authorization is forwarded intact to the redirect target, potentially exposing forward-proxy credentials to a host outside the original trust boundary when redirects are enabled through the redirects option or Wreck.defaults({ redirects: ... }). This issue is fixed in version 18.1.1.","published":"2026-07-17T22:17:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-24T20:10:00.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"security-advisories@github.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":6.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-200","CWE-522"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.0042,"percentile":0.36048,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.42%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/hapijs/wreck/commit/a5b6fac9c684621c1d5733d10a0257697cfea373","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/hapijs/wreck/pull/312","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/hapijs/wreck/releases/tag/v18.1.1","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/hapijs/wreck/security/advisories/GHSA-vhjm-w67q-g75c","source":"security-advisories@github.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44979","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}