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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 redire…

High CVSS 7.5
CVECVE-2026-40895
First seen2026-07-20 15:15 UTC
Disclosed2026-04-21 21:16 UTC
Last updated2026-07-21 15:15 UTC
Channel statusauto

Summary

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…

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Timeline

  1. nvd_ingest NVD