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Vulnerability details: VCID-y7sq-a7ta-qye7
Vulnerability ID VCID-y7sq-a7ta-qye7
Aliases CVE-2025-50181
GHSA-pq67-6m6q-mj2v
Summary urllib3 redirects are not disabled when retries are disabled on PoolManager instantiation urllib3 handles redirects and retries using the same mechanism, which is controlled by the `Retry` object. The most common way to disable redirects is at the request level, as follows: ```python resp = urllib3.request("GET", "https://httpbin.org/redirect/1", redirect=False) print(resp.status) # 302 ``` However, it is also possible to disable redirects, for all requests, by instantiating a `PoolManager` and specifying `retries` in a way that disable redirects: ```python import urllib3 http = urllib3.PoolManager(retries=0) # should raise MaxRetryError on redirect http = urllib3.PoolManager(retries=urllib3.Retry(redirect=0)) # equivalent to the above http = urllib3.PoolManager(retries=False) # should return the first response resp = http.request("GET", "https://httpbin.org/redirect/1") ``` However, the `retries` parameter is currently ignored, which means all the above examples don't disable redirects. ## Affected usages Passing `retries` on `PoolManager` instantiation to disable redirects or restrict their number. By default, requests and botocore users are not affected. ## Impact Redirects are often used to exploit SSRF vulnerabilities. An application attempting to mitigate SSRF or open redirect vulnerabilities by disabling redirects at the PoolManager level will remain vulnerable. ## Remediation You can remediate this vulnerability with the following steps: * Upgrade to a patched version of urllib3. If your organization would benefit from the continued support of urllib3 1.x, please contact [sethmichaellarson@gmail.com](mailto:sethmichaellarson@gmail.com) to discuss sponsorship or contribution opportunities. * Disable redirects at the `request()` level instead of the `PoolManager()` level.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2025-50181.json
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/f05b1329126d5be6de501f9d1e3e36738bc08857
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-06-23T16:45:50Z/ Found at https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/f05b1329126d5be6de501f9d1e3e36738bc08857
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-pq67-6m6q-mj2v
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-06-23T16:45:50Z/ Found at https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-pq67-6m6q-mj2v
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-50181
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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.01017
EPSS Score 0.00011
Published At June 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-01T12:12:56.290253+00:00 GithubOSV Importer Import https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/06/GHSA-pq67-6m6q-mj2v/GHSA-pq67-6m6q-mj2v.json 36.1.3