Issued:

2022-03-01

Updated:

2022-03-01

RHSA-2022:0722 - Moderate: rh-maven36-httpcomponents-client security update

Synopsis

Moderate: rh-maven36-httpcomponents-client security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for rh-maven36-httpcomponents-client is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• rh-maven36-httpcomponents-client-4.5.9-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm
• rh-maven36-httpcomponents-client-4.5.9-1.3.el7.src.rpm
• rh-maven36-httpcomponents-client-javadoc-4.5.9-1.3.el7.noarch.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1886587

CVEs

• CVE-2020-13956

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.