FKIE_CVE-2026-55688

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-01 20:17 - Updated: 2026-07-02 17:51
Severity
4.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Summary
The AsyncHttpClient (AHC) library allows Java applications to easily execute HTTP requests and asynchronously process HTTP responses. In versions from 2.0.0 prior to 2.16.0 and from 3.0.0.Beta1 prior to 3.0.11, ThreadSafeCookieStore stored a cookie under the value of its Domain attribute without verifying that the responding host is allowed to set a cookie for that domain, leading to a cookie tossing / cookie injection issue. A host the client connects to can therefore plant a cookie scoped to an unrelated domain, and the client will then send that cookie on later requests to that domain. Applications that use a single AsyncHttpClient instance - and thus the default, shared CookieStore - to reach both an attacker-influenced host and a trusted host are impacted. This issue has been fixed in versions 2.16.0 and 3.0.11.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client/pull/2196
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client/security/advisories/GHSA-m452-q8c9-rg2f
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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  "lastModified": "2026-07-02T17:51:04.033",
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