CVE-2017-14063: Incorrect URL parsing

August 31, 2017 (updated March 19, 2019)

This package can be tricked into connecting to a host different from the one extracted by java.net.URI if a’?’ character occurs in a fragment identifier. Similar bugs were previously identified in cURL (CVE-2016-8624) and Oracle Java 8 java.net.URL.

References

cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14063
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/08/31/4
github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client/issues/1455
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14063

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