Improper Host Validation in Async Http Client

CVE-2017-14063 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

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