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Message 236470 - Python tracker

The module urlparse lacks proper validation of the input leading to open redirect vulnerability.

The issue is that URLs do not survive the round-trip through  `urlunparse(urlparse(url))`. Python sees `/////foo.com` as a URL with no hostname or scheme and a path of `//foo.com`, but when it reconstructs the URL after parsing, it becomes `//foo.com`.

This can be practically exploited this way : http://example.com/login?next=/////evil.com

The for fix this would be for `urlunparse()` to serialize paths with two leading slashes as '/%2F', at least when `scheme` and `netloc` are empty.