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Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package httpcomponents-client-cache  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-HTTPCOMPONENTSCLIENTCACHE-1340515
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed8 Oct 2020
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Introduced: 8 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-13956  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream httpcomponents-client-cache package and not the httpcomponents-client-cache package as distributed by RHEL.

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.

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