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CVE-2026-40895

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.03 BB Relevance: 74/100
Published: 2026-04-21 Modified: 2026-11-03 First seen: 2026-11-02 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: X
AT: None
VC: Low
VI: None
VA: None

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.

Weakness Classification (2)

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
follow-redirects follow-redirects < 1.16.0
follow-redirects_project follow-redirects < 1.16.0

References & Advisories (49)

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Bug Bounty Relevance

74 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

6.9 / 10.0 v4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.49%
Raw Score 0.004860
Percentile 42.0%
Date 2026-11-05

EPSS Trend

2026-11-05
0.00486
2026-11-04
0.00486
2026-11-03
0.00486
2026-11-02
0.00486

Intelligence Sources

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