Overview
About vulnerability
HttpClient based on the classic i/o model fails to correctly release the underlying connection back to the connection manager if it encounters an invalid or unsupported Content-Encoding header value in the response message. Please note this defect does not affect HttpClient based on the async i/o model.
This issue affects Apache HttpComponents Client: from 5.0-alpha1 through 5.6.2.
Details
- Affected product:
- Apache CXF , Apache Solr , Spring , calcite , docker-java , hazelcast , httpcomponents-client , java-opensaml , java-shib-shared , testcontainers-java , wildfly , ws-wss4j
- Affected packages:
- httpclient5-fluent @ 5.5.2 (+1234 more)