Is CVE-2014-1829 being actively exploited?

CVE-2014-1829 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2014-1829?

CVE-2014-1829 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 5.0 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2014-1829

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.2%EU EUVD

Requests (aka python-requests) before 2.3.0 allows remote servers to obtain a netrc password by reading the Authorization header in a redirected request.

Key facts

CVSS score: 5.0 (v2.0)
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-200
EPSS score: 2.2% (83th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2014-0097)
Published: October 15, 2014
NVD last modified: June 17, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-0097 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

canonical / ubuntu linux
debian / debian linux
mageia / mageia
python / requests

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0409.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3146(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:133(Broken Link)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2382-1(Third Party Advisory)
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=733108(Issue Tracking)
https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/1885(Issue Tracking, Patch)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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