🛡️ CVE-2020-5404 — reactor-netty-http

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-522 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Insufficiently Protected Credentials in Reactor Netty

The HttpClient from Reactor Netty, versions 0.9.x prior to 0.9.5, and versions 0.8.x prior to 0.8.16, may be used incorrectly, leading to a credentials leak during a redirect to a different domain. In order for this to happen, the HttpClient must have been explicitly configured to follow redirects.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2020-5404 is classified as CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials. Credentials are stored or transmitted with protection too weak for what they unlock.

Affected software

CVE-2020-5404 is recorded against 1 package.

  • io.projectreactor.netty:reactor-netty-http (from 0.8.0 up to 0.8.16)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 February 2022 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
pivotal.io (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-522
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-02-10
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
io.projectreactor.netty:reactor-netty-http 0.8.0 0.8.16

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