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RHEL 7 : rh-maven36-httpcomponents-client (RHSA-2022:0722)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 158556
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for rh-maven36-httpcomponents-client.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0722 advisory.HttpClient is a HTTP/1.1 compliant HTTP agent implementation based on httpcomponents HttpCore. It also provides reusable components for client-side authentication, HTTP state management, and HTTP connection management.
Security Fix(es):
* apache-httpclient: incorrect handling of malformed authority component in request URIs (CVE-2020-13956)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the RHEL rh-maven36-httpcomponents-client package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:0722.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?b3a9a729
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 158556
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-0722.nasl
Version: 1.10
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 3/2/2022
Updated: 11/7/2024
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 2.2
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
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: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven36-httpcomponents-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven36-httpcomponents-client-javadoc
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/1/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2020
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2020-13956