Description

follow-redirects is an open source, drop-in replacement for Node's `http` and `https` modules that automatically follows redirects. Prior to 1.16.0, when an HTTP request follows a cross-domain redirect (301/302/307/308), follow-redirects only strips authorization, proxy-authorization, and cookie headers (matched by regex at index.js). Any custom authentication header (e.g., X-API-Key, X-Auth-Token, Api-Key, Token) is forwarded verbatim to the redirect target. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.16.0.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-04-21T19:59:59.759Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-22T13:31:34.652Z

Source :

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AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-40895 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Follow-redirects
  • Follow Redirects
Follow-redirects Project
  • Follow-redirects
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https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects/security/advisories/GHSA-r4q5-vmmm-2653 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40895 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40895 cve-icon
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