CVE-2024-28849General(follow-redirects_project / follow-redirects)

LOWCVSS 6.5 · MEDIUM

Signal is active with 1 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

  • Track advisory updates for patch or workaround availability

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

follow-redirects is an open source, drop-in replacement for Node's `http` and `https` modules that automatically follows redirects. In affected versions follow-redirects only clears authorization header during cross-domain redirect, but keep the proxy-authentication header which contains credentials too. This vulnerability may lead to credentials leak, but has been addressed in version 1.15.6. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

0.0/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Weakness type (CWE)
CWE-200

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

YES

Patch

AVAILABLE

Momentum

NONE

Are you affected?

If you run products in this scope, you should treat this CVE as relevant to your environment.

  • follow-redirects

Threat summary

  • 1 mentions across 1 observed day

What's happening

  • General: 1 classified signal
  • 1 total mentions across 1 day

Affected systems

Products
follow-redirects

Deep dive

Activity timeline1 mentions / 1d
00111Mentions · 2026-04-17: 104-17
Signal classification1 categories
General
1100.0%
Referenced assets1 URL
Full discourse1 post
  • DailyCVE@dailycve
    General

    🔴 Fastify (Nodejs), Path Traversal Bypass, #CVE-2024-28849 (critical) https://dailycve.com/fastify-nodejs-path-traversal-bypass-cve-2024-28849-critical/

    Post summary

    The post announces a critical path traversal bypass vulnerability (CVE‑2024‑28849) in Fastify, but provides no proof‑of‑concept, exploit, or detailed technical or patch information.

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CPE platform detail1 entries

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PartVendorProductVersionTarget SWTarget HW
Appfollow-redirects_projectfollow-redirects-node.js-

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