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CVE-2017-10295

Public on 2017-10-19
Modified on 2017-12-21
Description

It was found that the HttpURLConnection and HttpsURLConnection classes in the Networking component of OpenJDK failed to check for newline characters embedded in URLs. An attacker able to make a Java application perform an HTTP request using an attacker provided URL could possibly inject additional headers into the request.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.7
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.7.0-openjdk 2017-12-20 19:02 ALAS-2017-936
Amazon Linux 1 java-1.8.0-openjdk 2017-10-26 19:46 ALAS-2017-917

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 4.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N