Advisories » MGASA-2021-0314

Updated httpcomponents-client packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 06 Jul 2021
Modification date: 06 Jul 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2020-13956

Description

Priyank Nigam discovered that HttpComponents Client could misinterpret
malformed authority component in a request URI and pick the wrong target host
for request execution (CVE-2020-13956).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27389
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4772
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-13956

SRPMS

7/core

• httpcomponents-client-4.5.5-1.1.mga7