vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2020-13956: incorrect handling of malformed authority component in request URIs (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 2, 2020
Added
May 13, 2022
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

Apache HttpClient versions prior to version 4.5.13 and 5.0.3 can misinterpret malformed authority component in request URIs passed to the library as java.net.URI object and pick the wrong target host for request execution.

Solution(s)

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