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Cookie and header exposure in twisted

Type: advisorySources: OSV

twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. In affected versions twisted exposes cookies and authorization headers when following cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the `twited.web.RedirectAgent` and `twisted.web. BrowserLikeRedirectAgent` functions. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds.

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CVEs
CVE-2022-21712
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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8 Nov 2026, 00:19 UTC · Revision 1

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Cookie and header exposure in twisted

core-osv · Original source

Published 7 Feb 2022, 00:00 UTC

twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. In affected versions twisted exposes cookies and authorization headers when following cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the `twited.web.RedirectAgent` and `twisted.web. BrowserLikeRedirectAgent` functions. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds.

osv:CVE-2022-21712
Complete source record
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    "summary": "twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. In affected versions twisted exposes cookies and authorization headers when following cross-origin redirects. This issue is present in the `twited.web.RedirectAgent` and `twisted.web. BrowserLikeRedirectAgent` functions. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds.",
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