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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-29476

Requests is a HTTP library written in PHP. Requests mishandles deserialization in FilteredIterator. The issue has been patched and users of `Requests` 1.6.0, 1.6.1 and 1.7.0 should update to version 1.8.0.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:44 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-29476

core-osv · Original source

Published 27 Apr 2021, 21:15 UTC

Requests is a HTTP library written in PHP. Requests mishandles deserialization in FilteredIterator. The issue has been patched and users of `Requests` 1.6.0, 1.6.1 and 1.7.0 should update to version 1.8.0.

osv:CVE-2021-29476
Complete source record
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    "summary": "Requests is a HTTP library written in PHP. Requests mishandles deserialization in FilteredIterator. The issue has been patched and users of `Requests` 1.6.0, 1.6.1 and 1.7.0 should update to version 1.8.0.",
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      "references": [
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