CVE-2020-13956

Name	CVE-2020-13956
Description	Apache HttpClient versions prior to version 4.5.13 and 5.0.3 can misinterpret malformed authority component in request URIs passed to the library as java.net.URI object and pick the wrong target host for request execution.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-2405-1, DSA-4772-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
httpcomponents-client (PTS)	bullseye	4.5.13-2	fixed
	sid, trixie, bookworm	4.5.14-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
httpcomponents-client	source	stretch	4.5.2-2+deb9u1	DLA-2405-1
httpcomponents-client	source	buster	4.5.7-1+deb10u1	DSA-4772-1
httpcomponents-client	source	(unstable)	4.5.13-1

Notes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1886587
Fixed by: https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-client/commit/e628b4c5c464c2fa346385596cc78e035a91a62e (4.5.13-RC1)