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CVE-2011-1498 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache HttpClient

MediumCVSS 4.3 EPSS 6.7%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

Description

Apache HttpClient 4.x before 4.1.1 in Apache HttpComponents, when used with an authenticating proxy server, sends the Proxy-Authorization header to the origin server, which allows remote web servers to obtain sensitive information by logging this header.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
org.apache.httpcomponents/httpclient(Maven) >= 4.0.0, < 4.1.1 4.1.1
org.apache.httpcomponents/httpclient(Maven) = 4.0 No fix listed
org.apache.httpcomponents/httpclient(Maven) = 4.0.1 No fix listed
org.apache.httpcomponents/httpclient(Maven) = 4.0.2 No fix listed
org.apache.httpcomponents/httpclient(Maven) = 4.0.3 No fix listed
org.apache.httpcomponents/httpclient(Maven) = 4.1 No fix listed
org.apache.httpcomponents/httpclient(Maven) = 4.1-alpha1 No fix listed
org.apache.httpcomponents/httpclient(Maven) = 4.1-alpha2 No fix listed
org.apache.httpcomponents/httpclient(Maven) = 4.1-beta1 No fix listed
debian/httpcomponents-client(Debian:12) < 4.1.1-1 4.1.1-1
debian/httpcomponents-client(Debian:13) < 4.1.1-1 4.1.1-1
debian/httpcomponents-client(Debian:14) < 4.1.1-1 4.1.1-1
apache httpclient = 4.0 No fix listed
apache httpclient = 4.0-alpha1 No fix listed
apache httpclient = 4.0-alpha2 No fix listed
apache httpclient = 4.0-alpha3 No fix listed
apache httpclient = 4.0-alpha4 No fix listed
apache httpclient = 4.0-beta1 No fix listed
apache httpclient = 4.0-beta2 No fix listed
apache httpclient = 4.0.1 No fix listed
apache httpclient = 4.1 No fix listed
apache httpclient = 4.1-alpha1 No fix listed
apache httpclient = 4.1-alpha2 No fix listed
apache httpclient = 4.1-beta1 No fix listed

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