Information disclosure in httpclient - CVE-2011-1498

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Information disclosure in httpclient - CVE-2011-1498

Published: July 8, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU44897
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-1498
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

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 software

httpclient
IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody
IBM Tivoli Monitoring
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM)
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager
Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S)
IBM Rational Asset Manager

How to mitigate CVE-2011-1498

Install update from vendor's website.

Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S) - update to 1.10.14.0
IBM Rational Asset Manager - update to 7.5.4.15
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM) - update to 8.1.4.0.16
IBM Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody - addressed in versions 9.0.1.0.6, 9.0.2.0.2

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