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CVE-2020-11078 Detail

Description

In httplib2 before version 0.18.0, an attacker controlling unescaped part of uri for `httplib2.Http.request()` could change request headers and body, send additional hidden requests to same server. This vulnerability impacts software that uses httplib2 with uri constructed by string concatenation, as opposed to proper urllib building with escaping. This has been fixed in 0.18.0.


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Hyperlink Resource
https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/commit/a1457cc31f3206cf691d11d2bf34e98865873e9e Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/security/advisories/GHSA-gg84-qgv9-w4pq Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r23711190c2e98152cb6f216b95090d5eeb978543bb7e0bad22ce47fc%40%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4d35dac106fab979f0db75a07fc4e320ad848b722103e79667ff99e1%40%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r69a462e690b5f2c3d418a288a2c98ae764d58587bd0b5d6ab141f25f%40%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7f364000066748299b331b615ba51c62f55ab5b201ddce9a22d98202%40%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rad8872fc99f670958c2774e2bf84ee32a3a0562a0c787465cf3dfa23%40%3Cissues.beam.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc9eff9572946142b657c900fe63ea4bbd3535911e8d4ce4d08fe4b89%40%3Ccommits.allura.apache.org%3E
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00000.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IXCX2AWROGWGY5GXR7VN3BKF34A2FO6J/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PZJ3D6JSM7CFZESZZKGUW2VX55BOSOXI/

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-93 Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection') GitHub, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-11078
NVD Published Date:
05/20/2020
NVD Last Modified:
11/06/2023
Source:
GitHub, Inc.