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CVE-2022-21712

Cookie and header exposure in twisted

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: February 7, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:26 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxFedoraTwisted

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. In affected versions twisted exposes cookies and authorization headers when following cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the `twited.web.RedirectAgent` and `twisted.web. BrowserLikeRedirectAgent` functions. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%
9.0
Fedora· Fedora Projectrpm
95%
3536
Twisted· Twisted
95%
v < 22.1.011.1.0 ≤ v < 22.1.0
Affected range stops below 22.1.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

References (7)

x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/twisted/twisted/commit/af8fe78542a6f2bf2235ccee8158d9c88d31e8e2
x_refsource_MISCRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/twisted/twisted/releases/tag/twisted-22.1.0
x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/twisted/twisted/security/advisories/GHSA-92x2-jw7w-xvvx
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/02/msg00021.html
Vendor Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7U6KYDTOLPICAVSR34G2WRYLFBD2YW5K/
Vendor Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GLKHA6WREIVAMBQD7KKWYHPHGGNKMAG6/
Vendor Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202301-02

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitAutomatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.5HIGHGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-200CWE-346

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