Is there a patch available for CVE-2026-40895?

Yes, a patch is available for CVE-2026-40895. Update the affected software to the latest version immediately.

Follow Redirects CVE-2026-40895

Q: What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-40895?

CVE-2026-40895 has a CVSS 4.0 base score of 6.9 (Medium). CVSS vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X. EPSS exploitation probability: 0.1%.

EUVD-2026-24472 MEDIUM

Information Exposure (CWE-200)

2026-04-21 GitHub_M

Information Disclosure Follow Redirects

6.9

CVSS 4.0 · Vendor: GitHub_M

Severity by source

Vendor (GitHub_M) PRIMARY

6.9 MEDIUM

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Red Hat

7.5 HIGH

qualitative

Primary rating from Vendor (GitHub_M).

CVSS VectorVendor: GitHub_M

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Lifecycle Timeline

Patch released

Apr 23, 2026 - 15:54 nvd

Patch available

Apr 21, 2026 - 22:17 EUVD

CVSS changed

Apr 21, 2026 - 21:22 NVD

6.9 (MEDIUM)

EUVD ID Assigned

Apr 21, 2026 - 21:01 euvd

EUVD-2026-24472

CVE Published

Apr 21, 2026 - 19:59 nvd

MEDIUM 6.9

Blast Radius

ecosystem impact

† from your stack dependencies † transitive graph · vuln.today resolves 4-path depth

351,061 npm packages depend on follow-redirects (6,867 direct, 344,383 indirect)

Ecosystem-wide dependent count for version 1.16.0.

DescriptionCVE.org

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 1.16.0.