CVE-2026-44889

WebOb provides objects for HTTP requests and responses. Prior to 1.8.10, the normalization of the HTTP Location header during a redirect is vulnerable to an open redirect: WebOb joins the redirect target to the request URI using Python's urljoin, and since Python 3.10 the underlying urlsplit strips ASCII tab, carriage return, and newline characters before parsing, so a redirect target containing such characters can be reinterpreted as a protocol-relative URL whose authority is an attacker-controlled host. This bypasses the CVE-2024-42353 fix that escaped a leading double slash, allowing an attacker who influences the redirect location to send users to an arbitrary external site instead of the intended one. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.8.10.

CVSS 3.1

6.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 18% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-601

Published

2026-06-22

Modified

2026-10-25

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-25

Affected

• pylonsproject:webob

Packages (OSV)

References

• https://github.com/Pylons/webob/security/advisories/GHSA-fh3h-vg37-cc95

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