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Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2020-16850 – ICS: Mitsubishi MELSEC IQ-R series denial of service

October 12, 2020

Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2020-13956 – Apache HttpClient security bypass

Severity

Medium

Analysis Summary

Apache HttpClient could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the improper handling of malformed authority component in request URIs. By passing request URIs to the library as java.net.URI object, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to pick the wrong target host for request execution.

Impact

Security bypass

Affected Vendors

Apache

Affected Products

Apache HttpClient 4.5.12
Apache HttpClient 5.0.2

Remediation

Upgrade to the latest version of HttpClient (4.5.13 or 5.0.3 or later).

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2020/q4/34

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