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medium 4.3

CVE-2013-7397 json

Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in Async Http Client

published 2015-06-24 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-8h53-fjgg-g42g , EUVD-2022-3182

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Async Http Client (aka AHC or async-http-client) before 1.9.0 skips X.509 certificate verification unless both a keyStore location and a trustStore location are explicitly set, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof HTTPS servers by presenting an arbitrary certificate during use of a typical AHC configuration, as demonstrated by a configuration that does not send client certificates.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.ning:async-http-client 1.9.0
  • async-http-client Debian 12 1.6.5-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-7397

  • async-http-client Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 1.6.5-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2013-7397

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-7397 updated cvss 5.8

async-http-client: SSL/TLS certificate verification is disabled under certain conditions

  • Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 async-http-client async-http-client
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0851
  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0850
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1176
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1551

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.ning:async-http-client
<1.9.0
1.9.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

References

Sources

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