CVE-2024-53990 (GCVE-0-2024-53990)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-02 17:10 – Updated: 2024-12-04 17:08
VLAI
Title
AsyncHttpClient (AHC) library's `CookieStore` replaces explicitly defined `Cookie`s
Summary
The AsyncHttpClient (AHC) library allows Java applications to easily execute HTTP requests and asynchronously process HTTP responses. When making any HTTP request, the automatically enabled and self-managed CookieStore (aka cookie jar) will silently replace explicitly defined Cookies with any that have the same name from the cookie jar. For services that operate with multiple users, this can result in one user's Cookie being used for another user's requests.
Severity
9.2 (Critical)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-04 17:04 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 8129 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
AsyncHttpClient async-http-client Affected: < 3.0.1
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asynchttpclient_project async-http-client Affected: 0 , < 3.0.1 (custom)
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