Medium
Security advisory
undertow before versions 1.4.18.SP1, 2.0.2.Final, 1.4.24.Final was found vulnerable when using Digest authentication, the server does not ensure that the value of URI in the Authorization header matches the URI in HTTP request line. This allows the attacker to cause a MITM attack and access the desired content on the server.
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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-12196
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
undertow before versions 1.4.18.SP1, 2.0.2.Final, 1.4.24.Final was found vulnerable when using Digest authentication, the server does not ensure that the value of URI in the Authorization header matches the URI in HTTP request line. This allows the attacker to cause a MITM attack and access the desired content on the server.
osv:CVE-2017-12196
Complete source record
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