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high 8.2

CVE-2026-111755 json

follow-redirects sensitiveHeaders regex escaping can expose credential headers

published 21d ago modified 20d ago also EUVD-2026-104536 , GHSA-8r9p-f939-6h3c

cvss
8.2
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

follow-redirects is a Node.js HTTP and HTTPS client wrapper that automatically follows redirects. From 1.16.0 until 1.16.1, escapeRegex leaves valid header-name metacharacters unescaped in sensitiveHeaders. When an application declares a sensitive header whose name contains ^ or | and follows a cross-origin or HTTPS-to-HTTP redirect, unescaped regular-expression metacharacters prevent the generated filter from matching the declared header name, and the credential header is forwarded to an attacker-controlled redirect target. This issue is fixed in version 1.16.1.

Patch / fix

  • npm follow-redirects 1.16.1
  • follow-redirects follow_redirects 1.16.1
  • follow-redirects_project follow-redirects 1.16.1
  • node-follow-redirects Debian 14 1.16.1+~1.14.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-111755

  • agama-web-ui openSUSE Tumbleweed 25+475.275dd4727-56.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12424-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-111755 updated cvss 5.9

follow-redirects: follow-redirects: Information disclosure via improper regular expression escaping in sensitive header filtering

  • Red Hat Hardened Images prometheus3.5 3.5.5-0.8.hum1
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Hardened Images grafana13.1 13.1.8-0.4.hum1, grafana13.2 13.2.4-0.3.hum1, grafana12.4 12.4.13-0.3.hum1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:88478
  • Red Hat Hardened Images prometheus3.13 3.13.4-0.1.hum1
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
21d ago

Exploit prediction

0.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/security/advisories/GHSA-8r9p-f939-6h3c referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.2 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 8.2 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm follow-redirects
>=1.16.0, <1.16.1
1.16.1

Affected products

  • follow-redirects follow-redirects

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-185 Incorrect Regular Expression
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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