GHSA-r4q5-vmmm-2653: follow-redirects leaks Custom Authentication Headers to Cross-Domain Redirect Targets
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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:469-476). Any custom authentication header (e.g., X-API-Key, X-Auth-Token, Api-Key, Token) is forwarded verbatim to the redirect target.
Since follow-redirects is the redirect-handling dependency for axios (105K+ stars), this vulnerability affects the entire axios ecosystem.
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