CVE-2019-17598: Insufficiently Protected Credentials

November 5, 2019 (updated November 15, 2019)

An issue was discovered in Lightbend Play Framework. When configured to make requests using an authenticated HTTP proxy, play-ws may sometimes, typically under high load, when connecting to a target host using https, expose the proxy credentials to the target host.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17598
www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability
www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability/CVE-2019-17598-PlayWSHttpConnectAuthorizationHeaders

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