REDHAT-BUG-1386103: Medium severity openjdk 8 vulnerability

Published Oct 18, 2016
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Updated

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.

Two new network system properties are introduced as part of the fix which restrict HTTP authentication schemes that can be used for authentication to proxy depending on whether proxied request is HTTP or HTTPS:

- jdk.http.auth.proxying.disabledSchemes lists authentication schemes that can not be used for proxy authentication when proxying HTTP request. No schemes are disabled by default.

- jdk.http.auth.tunneling.disabledSchemes lists authentication schemes that can not be used for proxy authentication when proxying HTTPS request (using HTTP CONNECT method). The 'Basic' HTTP authentication scheme is disabled by default.

Affected Software

1 affected component
ORACLE OpenJDK

Event History

Oct 18, 2016
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·07:32 AM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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