CVE-2011-1498
EPSS 4.4%Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache HttpClient
Published: 5/17/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1498
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 packages (2)
- Debian/httpcomponents-clientfrom 0, < 4.1.1-1
- Maven/org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient>= 4.0.0, < 4.1.1
References (15)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1498
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1498
- PATCHhttps://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-client
- WEBhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061440.html
- WEBhttp://marc.info/?l=httpclient-users&m=129853896315461&w=2
- WEBhttp://marc.info/?l=httpclient-users&m=129856318011586&w=2
- WEBhttp://marc.info/?l=httpclient-users&m=129857589129183&w=2
- WEBhttp://marc.info/?l=httpclient-users&m=129858274406594&w=2
- WEBhttp://marc.info/?l=httpclient-users&m=129858299106950&w=2
- WEBhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/07/7
- WEBhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/08/1
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709531
- WEBhttp://securityreason.com/securityalert/8298
- WEBhttps://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-client/commit/a572756592c969affd0ce87885724e74839176fb
- WEBhttps://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1061