Critical
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-29476
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"references": [
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"https://github.com/rmccue/Requests/pull/421"
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"published_at": "2021-04-27T21:15:08.107+00:00"
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