Debian DLA-2405-1 : httpcomponents-client security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 141389

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Oleg Kalnichevski discovered that httpcomponents-client, a Java library for building HTTP-aware applications, can misinterpret a malformed authority component in request URIs passed to the library as java.net.URI object and pick the wrong target host for request execution.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.2-2+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your httpcomponents-client packages.

For the detailed security status of httpcomponents-client please refer to its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/httpcomponents-client

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 141389

File Name: debian_DLA-2405.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/12/2020

Updated: 2/15/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-13956

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libhttpclient-java, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libhttpmime-java, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13956

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