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CentOS 8 : maven:3.5 (CESA-2022:1861)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 160900

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2022:1861 advisory.

 - apache-httpclient: incorrect handling of malformed authority component in request URIs (CVE-2020-13956)

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 affected httpcomponents-client package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1861

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 160900

File Name: centos8_RHSA-2022-1861.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/10/2022

Updated: 10/27/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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: 4.9

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8-stream, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:httpcomponents-client

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13956

IAVA: 2022-A-0029

RHSA: 2022:1861