Security update for python-requests

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:20094-1
Release Date: 2025-02-03T09:12:09Z
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2024-35195 ( SUSE ): 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Micro 6.0

An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for python-requests contains the following fixes:

  • Add patch to fix to inject the default CA bundles if they are not specified. (bsc#1226321, bsc#1231500)

  • Remove Requires on python-py, it should have been removed earlier.

  • update to 2.32.3:

  • Fixed bug breaking the ability to specify custom SSLContexts in sub-classes of HTTPAdapter.

  • Fixed issue where Requests started failing to run on Python versions compiled without the ssl module.

  • To provide a more stable migration for custom HTTPAdapters impacted by the CVE changes in 2.32.0, we've renamed _get_connection to a new public API, get_connection_with_tls_context. Existing custom HTTPAdapters will need to migrate their code to use this new API. get_connection is

  • Fixed an issue where setting verify=False on the first request from a Session will cause subsequent requests to the same origin to also ignore cert verification,
  • verify=True now reuses a global SSLContext which should improve request time
  • Requests now supports optional use of character detection (chardet or charset_normalizer) when repackaged or vendored. This enables pip and other projects to minimize their

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Micro 6.0
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.0-125=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 (noarch)
    • python311-requests-2.32.3-1.1

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