CVE-2026-44889CWE-601

WebOb: Location header normalization during redirect leads to open redirect

Medium · published June 22, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

WebOb provides objects for HTTP requests and responses. Prior to 1.8.10, the normalization of the HTTP Location header during a redirect is vulnerable to an open redirect: WebOb joins the redirect target to the request URI using Python's urljoin, and since Python 3.10 the underlying urlsplit strips ASCII tab, carriage return, and newline characters before parsing, so a redirect target containing such characters can be reinterpreted as a protocol-relative URL whose authority is an attacker-controlled host. This bypasses the CVE-2024-42353 fix that escaped a leading double slash, allowing an attacker who influences the redirect location to send users to an arbitrary external site instead of the intended one. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.8.10.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00269 · 18.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-601 · URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
Published
2026-06-22T21:30Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 JUN 21:30Z
    WebOb: Location header normalization during redirect leads to open redirect
    cvelistv5