WS-2010-0001 Medium Severity Vulnerability detected by WhiteSource

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WS-2010-0001 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - commons-codec-1.3.jar

The codec package contains simple encoder and decoders for various formats such as Base64 and Hexadecimal. In addition to these widely used encoders and decoders, the codec package also maintains a collection of phonetic encoding utilities.

path: /root/.m2/repository/commons-codec/commons-codec/1.3/commons-codec-1.3.jar

Library home page: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/codec/

Dependency Hierarchy:

• geoip2-0.7.1.jar (Root Library)
  • google-http-client-1.17.0-rc.jar
    • httpclient-4.0.1.jar
      • ❌ commons-codec-1.3.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Vulnerability Details

Base64 encode() method is no longer thread-safe in Apache Commons Codec before version 1.7, which might disclose the wrong data or allow an attacker to change non-private fields.

Publish Date: 2010-02-26

URL: WS-2010-0001

CVSS 2 Score Details (5.0)

Base Score Metrics not available

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