asynchttpclient/async-http-client · Security
Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in Async Http Client
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-5c66-6h6g-6q6m
- CVE ID
- CVE-2013-7398
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
Description
main/java/com/ning/http/client/AsyncHttpClientConfig.java in Async Http Client (aka AHC or async-http-client) before 1.9.0 does not require a hostname match during verification of X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof HTTPS servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.
CWEs
- CWE-345 · Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-7398 ↗
- https://github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client/issues/197 ↗
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8@%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E ↗
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd0e44e8ef71eeaaa3cf3d1b8b41eb25894372e2995ec908ce7624d26@%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E ↗
- https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2016-06-20 ↗
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/26/1 ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0850.html ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0851.html ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1176.html ↗
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1551.html ↗
- https://github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client/commit/a894583921c11c3b01f160ada36a8bb9d5158e9 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5c66-6h6g-6q6m ↗