Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package jakarta-commons-httpclient (opens in a new tab)
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- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed3 Feb 2020
Introduced: 3 Feb 2020
CVE-2020-1721 (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 jakarta-commons-httpclient package and not the jakarta-commons-httpclient package as distributed by RHEL.
A flaw was found in the Key Recovery Authority (KRA) Agent Service in pki-core 10.10.5 where it did not properly sanitize the recovery ID during a key recovery request, enabling a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. An attacker could trick an authenticated victim into executing specially crafted Javascript code.