The AsyncHttpClient (AHC) library allows Java applications to easily execute HTTP requests and asynchronously process HTTP responses. Prior to 3.0.12 and 2.16.1, a proxied ws request is carried through CONNECT, but NettyRequestFactory.newNettyRequest and requestUri decide whether to attach proxy authentication and an absolute-form target only from whether the URI is secure. Because ws is not marked secure, the tunneled WebSocket upgrade sent to the origin includes the proxy's Proxy-Authorization value. Basic credentials are directly recoverable and Digest responses can be replayed or cracked offline. This issue is fixed in versions 3.0.12 and 2.16.1.

Affected: Maven: org.asynchttpclient:async-http-client

### Impact When a ws:// request is routed through an HTTP proxy with proxy authentication configured, the client tunnels the connection with an HTTP CONNECT, the same as it does for https://. Once the tunnel is open, the WebSocket upgrade request that follows is sent through the tunnel directly to the origin server, not to the proxy. The proxy-auth gate and the companion request-target selection keyed only on whether the URI was secured, which is false for ws://, so the tunnelled upgrade request incorrectly carried the proxy's Proxy-Authorization header and an absolute-form request target meant for the proxy. Any origin server reached over a proxied ws:// connection, or anyone positioned on the origin side of the wire, could recover the proxy credentials: directly for Basic, or as a replayable and offline-crackable response for Digest.

### Affected versions * 3.x: up to and including 3.0.11 * 2.x: up to and including 2.16.0

### Patches Fixed in 3.0.12 on the 3.x line and in 2.16.1 on the 2.x line. The preemptive Proxy-Authorization header and the absolute-form request target are no longer attached to a tunnelled ws:// upgrade; a ws:// request is now treated like wss://.

### Workarounds Do not use proxy authentication together with ws:// requests through an HTTP proxy, or use wss:// instead.

### Details The proxy-auth gate in NettyRequestFactory#newNettyRequest and the sibling branch in requestUri() did not exclude WebSocket URIs, even though the CONNECT-tunnelling check…