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CVE-2016-5597

Public on 2016-10-25
Modified on 2017-02-06
Description

A flaw was found in the way the Networking component of OpenJDK handled HTTP proxy authentication. A Java application could possibly expose HTTPS server authentication credentials via a plain text network connection to an HTTP proxy if proxy asked for authentication.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.6.0-openjdk 2017-02-06 18:00 ALAS-2017-795
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.7.0-openjdk 2016-11-18 12:30 ALAS-2016-771
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2016-10-27 17:00 ALAS-2016-759

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N