ALASANSIBLE2-2023-007

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-11078  

A flaw was found in python-httplib2. An attacker controlling an 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. (CVE-2020-11078)

ALASANSIBLE2-2023-007


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALASANSIBLE2-2023-007
Advisory Release Date: 2023-08-21 21:01 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-09-25 22:13 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in python-httplib2. An attacker controlling an 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. (CVE-2020-11078)


Affected Packages:

python-httplib2


Issue Correction:
Run yum update python-httplib2 to update your system.

New Packages:
noarch:
    python2-httplib2-0.18.1-3.amzn2.noarch
    python3-httplib2-0.18.1-3.amzn2.noarch

src:
    python-httplib2-0.18.1-3.amzn2.src