RHEL 7 : rh-maven36-httpcomponents-client (RHSA-2022:0722)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 158556

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for rh-maven36-httpcomponents-client.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0722 advisory.

- apache-httpclient: incorrect handling of malformed authority component in request URIs (CVE-2020-13956)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL rh-maven36-httpcomponents-client package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:0722.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8db8b606

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0722

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1886587

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 158556

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-0722.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/2/2022

Updated: 4/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

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-2020-13956

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven36-httpcomponents-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-maven36-httpcomponents-client-javadoc

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13956

CWE: 20

IAVA: 2022-A-0029

RHSA: 2022:0722