GHSA-fmj5-wv96-r2ch

Denial of service vulnerability in org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2015-5262

Description

http/conn/ssl/SSLConnectionSocketFactory.java in Apache HttpComponents HttpClient before 4.3.6 ignores the http.socket.timeout configuration setting during an SSL handshake, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (HTTPS call hang) via unspecified vectors.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclientintroduced 0, fixed 4.3.6

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database