diff --git a/src/requests/utils.py b/src/requests/utils.py
index 8a307ca8a0..8ab55852cc 100644
--- a/src/requests/utils.py
+++ b/src/requests/utils.py
@@ -219,14 +219,7 @@ def get_netrc_auth(url, raise_errors=False):
         netrc_path = None
 
         for f in netrc_locations:
-            try:
-                loc = os.path.expanduser(f)
-            except KeyError:
-                # os.path.expanduser can fail when $HOME is undefined and
-                # getpwuid fails. See https://bugs.python.org/issue20164 &
-                # https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/1846
-                return
-
+            loc = os.path.expanduser(f)
             if os.path.exists(loc):
                 netrc_path = loc
                 break
diff --git a/tests/test_utils.py b/tests/test_utils.py
index 5e9b56ea64..f9a287af1b 100644
--- a/tests/test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
     get_encoding_from_headers,
     get_encodings_from_content,
     get_environ_proxies,
+    get_netrc_auth,
     guess_filename,
     guess_json_utf,
     is_ipv4_address,
@@ -152,6 +153,24 @@ def test_super_len_with_no_matches(self):
         assert super_len(object()) == 0
 
 
+class TestGetNetrcAuth:
+    def test_works(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+        netrc_path = tmp_path / ".netrc"
+        monkeypatch.setenv("NETRC", str(netrc_path))
+        with open(netrc_path, "w") as f:
+            f.write("machine example.com login aaaa password bbbb\n")
+        auth = get_netrc_auth("http://example.com/thing")
+        assert auth == ("aaaa", "bbbb")
+
+    def test_not_vulnerable_to_bad_url_parsing(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+        netrc_path = tmp_path / ".netrc"
+        monkeypatch.setenv("NETRC", str(netrc_path))
+        with open(netrc_path, "w") as f:
+            f.write("machine example.com login aaaa password bbbb\n")
+        auth = get_netrc_auth("http://example.com:@evil.com/'")
+        assert auth is None
+
+
 class TestToKeyValList:
     @pytest.mark.parametrize(
         "value, expected",