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Ubuntu: USN-5239-1 (CVE-2020-13956): HttpClient vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-5239-1 (CVE-2020-13956): HttpClient vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/02/2020
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libhttpclient-java

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