{"schema_version":"1.7.2","id":"OESA-2026-2679","modified":"2026-06-12T12:28:37Z","published":"2026-06-12T12:28:37Z","upstream":["CVE-2026-44889"],"summary":"python-webob security update","details":"WebOb provides wrappers around the WSGI request environment, and an object to help create WSGI responses. The objects map much of the specified behavior of HTTP, including header parsing and accessors for other standard parts of the environment.\r\n\r\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n### Impact\n\nWhen WebOb normalizes the HTTP Location header to include the request hostname, it does so by parsing the URL that the user is to be redirected to with Python's `urllib.parse`, and joining it to the base URL. `urlsplit` (called internally by `urljoin`) however treats a `//` at the start of a string as a URI without a scheme, and then treats the next part as the hostname. `urljoin` will then use that hostname from the second part as the hostname replacing the original one from the request.\n\nIn a previous advisory https://github.com/Pylons/webob/security/advisories/GHSA-mg3v-6m49-jhp3 an attempt to fix this was made by forcing the replacement of `//` with `/%2f`, however this did not take into account that since Python 3.10 `urlsplit` internally strips ASCII tab, carriage return, and newline characters from the string, so `/\\t/attacker.com` gets turned into `//attacker.com` and the attacker is able to bypass the changes introduced in that previous advisory, thereby bringing back the problem that was attempted to be fixed.\n\n```\n>>> parse.urlparse("//attacker.com/some/path")\nParseResult(scheme='', netloc='attacker.com', path='/some/path', params='', query='', fragment='')\n```\n\nWebOb uses `urljoin` to take the request URI and join the redirect location to it, so assuming the request URI is `https://example.org/` and the URL to redirect to is `/\\t/attacker.com/some/path/`:\n\n```\n>>> parse.urljoin("https://example.org/", "/\\t/attacker.com/some/path/")\n'https://attacker.com/some/path/'\n```\n\nWhich redirects from `example.org` where we want the user to stay to `attacker.com`.\n\n### Patches\n\nThis issue has been fixed in WebOb 1.8.10.\n\n### Workarounds\n\nAny use of the `Response` class that includes a `location` can be rewritten to make sure to always pass a full URI that includes the hostname to redirect the user to, or to validate that the redirect target starts with a scheme (e.g. `http://` or `https://`) before assigning to `Response.location`.\n\n### References\n\n- https://github.com/Pylons/webob/security/advisories/GHSA-mg3v-6m49-jhp3\n- CVE-2024-42353\n\n### Thanks\n\n- Caleb Brown of Google(CVE-2026-44889)","affected":[{"package":{"ecosystem":"openEuler:22.03-LTS-SP4","name":"python-webob","purl":"pkg:rpm/openEuler/python-webob&distro=openEuler-22.03-LTS-SP4"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.8.7-4.oe2203sp4"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"noarch":["python3-webob-1.8.7-4.oe2203sp4.noarch.rpm"],"src":["python-webob-1.8.7-4.oe2203sp4.src.rpm"]}},{"package":{"ecosystem":"openEuler:24.03-LTS-SP1","name":"python-webob","purl":"pkg:rpm/openEuler/python-webob&distro=openEuler-24.03-LTS-SP1"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.8.7-5.oe2403sp1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"noarch":["python3-webob-1.8.7-5.oe2403sp1.noarch.rpm"],"src":["python-webob-1.8.7-5.oe2403sp1.src.rpm"]}},{"package":{"ecosystem":"openEuler:24.03-LTS-SP3","name":"python-webob","purl":"pkg:rpm/openEuler/python-webob&distro=openEuler-24.03-LTS-SP3"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.8.7-5.oe2403sp3"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"noarch":["python3-webob-1.8.7-5.oe2403sp3.noarch.rpm"],"src":["python-webob-1.8.7-5.oe2403sp3.src.rpm"]}},{"package":{"ecosystem":"openEuler:20.03-LTS-SP4","name":"python-webob","purl":"pkg:rpm/openEuler/python-webob&distro=openEuler-20.03-LTS-SP4"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.8.2-5.oe2003sp4"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"noarch":["python2-webob-1.8.2-5.oe2003sp4.noarch.rpm","python3-webob-1.8.2-5.oe2003sp4.noarch.rpm"],"src":["python-webob-1.8.2-5.oe2003sp4.src.rpm"]}}],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bulletins/detail/?id=openEuler-SA-2026-2679"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44889"}],"database_specific":{"severity":"Medium"}}