Ubuntu 25.04: USN-7568-1 critical: requests information leak

ubuntu

June 16, 2025

Several security issues were fixed in Requests.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Requests.

Software Description:

- requests: elegant and simple HTTP library for Python

Details:

Dennis Brinkrolf and Tobias Funke discovered that Requests did not

correctly handle certain HTTP headers. A remote attacker could possibly

use this issue to leak sensitive information. This issue only affected

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-32681)

Juho Forsén discovered that Requests did not correctly parse URLs. A

remote attacker could possibly use this issue to leak sensitive

information. (CVE-2024-47081)

Topics Covered

security advisory information leak critical ubuntu http issue requests

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 25.04
  python3-requests                2.32.3+dfsg-4ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 24.10
  python3-requests                2.32.3+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  python3-requests                2.31.0+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  python3-requests                2.25.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  python3-requests                2.22.0-2ubuntu1.1+esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  python-requests                 2.18.4-2ubuntu0.1+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  python3-requests                2.18.4-2ubuntu0.1+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  python-requests                 2.9.1-3ubuntu0.1+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  python3-requests                2.9.1-3ubuntu0.1+esm2
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  python-requests                 2.2.1-1ubuntu0.4+esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  python-requests-whl             2.2.1-1ubuntu0.4+esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro
  python3-requests                2.2.1-1ubuntu0.4+esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.