Bug 1413905 (CVE-2017-2589)

Summary: CVE-2017-2589 hawtio: Proxy is sharing cookies among all the clients
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
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It was discovered that the hawtio servlet uses a single HttpClient instance to proxy requests with a persistent cookie store (cookies are stored locally and are not passed between the client and the end URL) which means all clients using that proxy are sharing the same cookies.
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-01-17 10:00:07 UTC
It was that hawtio servlet uses a single HttpClient instance to proxy requests, with a persistent cookie store, i.e. cookies are stored locally and are not passed between the client and the end URL, which means all clients using that proxy are sharing the same cookies.

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-01-17 10:01:40 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: Adam Willard (Blue Canopy), Dennis Reed (Red Hat)

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-10 23:03:29 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Fuse

Via RHSA-2017:1832 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1832