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SCA: security update for org.asynchttpclient:async-http-client (GHSA-93jq-624g-4p9p)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422854

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Async Http Client (aka async-http-client) before 2.0.35 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. (CVE-2017-14063)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-93jq-624g-4p9p

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422854

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-14063

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/19/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/31/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-14063

cwe: CWE-20