GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-gw85-4gmf-m7rh Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache HttpClient
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2011-1498
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient
- Severity
- Moderate
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
- Reviewed
- 2022-07-13
Affected packages
• Maven org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient: >= 4.0.0, < 4.1.1 → fixed in 4.1.1
Description
Apache HttpClient 4.x before 4.1.1 in Apache HttpComponents, when used with an authenticating proxy server, sends the Proxy-Authorization header to the origin server, which allows remote web servers to obtain sensitive information by logging this header.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2011-1498 Apache HttpClient 4.x before 4.1.1 in Apache HttpComponents, when used with an authenticating proxy server, sends the Proxy-Authorization… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1498 advisory
- https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-client/commit/a572756592c969affd0ce87885724e74839176fb web
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709531 web
- https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-client package
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1061 web
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061440.html web
- http://marc.info/?l=httpclient-users&m=129853896315461&w=2 web
- http://marc.info/?l=httpclient-users&m=129856318011586&w=2 web
- http://marc.info/?l=httpclient-users&m=129857589129183&w=2 web
- http://marc.info/?l=httpclient-users&m=129858274406594&w=2 web
- http://marc.info/?l=httpclient-users&m=129858299106950&w=2 web
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/07/7 web
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/08/1 web
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8298 web