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Medium · 6.8 CVE-2026-85717 EUVD-2026-81905GHSA-f8m2-889x-vw4x

AsyncHttpClient: Client-wide realm credentials re-sent to a cross-origin redirect target

Published Sep 17, 2026 · Updated Sep 23, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

The AsyncHttpClient (AHC) library allows Java applications to easily execute HTTP requests and asynchronously process HTTP responses. From 2.14.5 to 2.16.0 and from 3.0.9 to 3.0.11, a client configured with a client-wide Realm and redirect following can disclose credentials after a cross-origin redirect because the Interceptors authentication path falls back to the client configuration after redirect handling clears the per-exchange realm. If the attacker-controlled target returns 401, the client can send Basic or Digest credentials or a Negotiate or NTLM token to that origin. Per-request realms are stripped correctly, and this issue is a residual bypass of the earlier cross-origin credential-stripping fixes. This issue is fixed in versions 2.16.1 and 3.0.12.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
AsyncHttpClient async-http-client >= 2.14.5, < 2.16.1, >= 3.0.9, < 3.0.12 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 async-http-client No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS async-http-client No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS async-http-client No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS async-http-client No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS async-http-client No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS async-http-client No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS async-http-client No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS async-http-client No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling apache-pulsar-4.2 4.2.4-r4 —
Wolfi rolling druid 37.0.0-r58 —
Wolfi rolling tez 0.10.5-r31 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.asynchttpclient:async-http-client >= 3.0.9, < 3.0.12 3.0.12 GHSA-f8m2-889x-vw4x
Maven org.asynchttpclient:async-http-client >= 2.14.5, < 2.16.1 2.16.1 GHSA-f8m2-889x-vw4x

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