diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 722e14e3..3da2e991 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
 Unreleased
 ----------
 
+Security Fix
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- The use of WebOb's Response object to redirect a request to a new location
+  can lead to an open redirect if the Location header is not a full URI.
+
+  See https://github.com/Pylons/webob/security/advisories/GHSA-mg3v-6m49-jhp3
+  and CVE-2024-42353
+
+  Thanks to Sara Gao for the report
+
+  (This fix was released in WebOb 1.8.8)
+
 Feature
 ~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4186de41..cb7a988f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -18,7 +18,11 @@
     "pytest-xdist",
 ]
 
-docs_extras = ["Sphinx >= 1.7.5", "pylons-sphinx-themes"]
+docs_extras = [
+    "Sphinx >= 1.7.5",
+    "pylons-sphinx-themes",
+    "setuptools",
+]
 
 setup(
     name="WebOb",
diff --git a/src/webob/response.py b/src/webob/response.py
index be4dbc60..5fffbfd5 100644
--- a/src/webob/response.py
+++ b/src/webob/response.py
@@ -1359,6 +1359,11 @@ def _make_location_absolute(environ, value):
         if SCHEME_RE.search(value):
             return value
 
+        # This is to fix an open redirect issue due to the way that
+        # urlparse.urljoin works. See CVE-2024-42353 and
+        # https://github.com/Pylons/webob/security/advisories/GHSA-mg3v-6m49-jhp3
+        if value.startswith("//"):
+            value = f"/%2f{value[2:]}"
         new_location = urlparse.urljoin(_request_uri(environ), value)
 
         return new_location
diff --git a/tests/test_response.py b/tests/test_response.py
index f0b82085..f539b422 100644
--- a/tests/test_response.py
+++ b/tests/test_response.py
@@ -1085,6 +1085,17 @@ def test_location():
     assert req.get_response(res).location == "http://localhost/test2.html"
 
 
+def test_location_no_open_redirect():
+    # This is a test for a fix for CVE-2024-42353 and
+    # https://github.com/Pylons/webob/security/advisories/GHSA-mg3v-6m49-jhp3
+    res = Response()
+    res.status = "301"
+    res.location = "//www.example.com/test"
+    assert res.location == "//www.example.com/test"
+    req = Request.blank("/")
+    assert req.get_response(res).location == "http://localhost/%2fwww.example.com/test"
+
+
 @pytest.mark.xfail(
     sys.version_info < (3, 0),
     reason="Python 2.x unicode != str, WSGI requires str. Test "