CVE-2024-47081: Requests vulnerable to .netrc credentials leak via malicious URLs

CVE-2024-47081 · Severity: medium · CVSS 5.3 · Published 2025-06-09

### Impact

Due to a URL parsing issue, Requests releases prior to 2.32.4 may leak .netrc credentials to third parties for specific maliciously-crafted URLs.

### Workarounds For older versions of Requests, use of the .netrc file can be disabled with `trust_env=False` on your Requests Session ([docs](https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/#requests.Session.trust_env)).

### References https://github.com/psf/requests/pull/6965 https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Jun/2

Technologies: requests (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2024-47081 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2024-47081 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2024-47081?
Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.3, published 9 June 2025.
Which products and versions are affected?
requests (PyPI) < 2.32.4, ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=2.32.4.
Is there a fix for CVE-2024-47081?
Yes. requests (PyPI): upgrade to 2.32.4 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
Am I affected by CVE-2024-47081?
Check whether you run requests (PyPI) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

How to fix

  • requests (PyPI): upgrade to 2.32.4 or later
    pip install "requests>=2.32.4"

Affected products

  • requests (PyPI) < 2.32.4, ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=2.32.4

Identifiers

  • CVE-2024-47081
  • GHSA-9hjg-9r4m-mvj7
  • PYSEC-2026-1872

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