CVE-2020-13956: Improper Authorization

December 2, 2020 (updated November 30, 2021)

Apache HttpClient versions 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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13956

Code Behaviors & Features

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