MAJOR vulnerability: bump httpclient from 4.3.6 to 4.5.3

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Vulnerability Information

Bumps apache-httpclient from 4.3.6 to 4.5.3.

Listed dependency org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient contains vulnerable methods which are called from this project. This vulnerability appears to affect httpclient package versions lower than 4.5.3 (excluding). The vulnerability has been fixed in version 4.5.3, as can be seen from the package release notes.

Property	Value
Linked CVE	HTTPCLIENT-1803
Number of affected methods	10+
Severity	MAJOR
Current version	4.3.6
Updated version	4.5.3
Backwards Compatibility	True

Vulnerable method calls

Methods in this repository	Used package methods	Origin vulnerable method
edu.ksu.canvas.net/ SimpleRestClient.sendApiPost(OauthToken token, String url, Map<String, List<String>> postParameters, int connectTimeout, int readTimeout)	org.apache.http.client.methods/RequestBuilder.build()	org.apache.http.client.util/ URIBuilder.normalizePath(String path)
weixin.popular.api/ScanAPI.productCreate(String accessToken, String postJson)	org.apache.http.client.methods/RequestBuilder.build()	org.apache.http.client.util/ URIBuilder.normalizePath(String path)

Whole set of methods

To see the whole set of methods that are affected, please take a look at the table in the markdown file here.

What do the columns represent?

The 1st column in the table indicates the method in this repository that was found to be affected by vulnerable methods from the httpclient package.

The 2nd column indicates the httpclient method that was directly called from this repository.

The 3rd column indicates the origin vulnerable method in the httpclient package. According to our dataset, this is one of the methods that produces the HTTPCLIENT-1803 vulnerability. This method was found to be internally chain-called in the httpclient package by the method listed in column 2.

How were the results generated?

This vulnerability was analyzed specifically for usage in this project using the FASTEN Project. Statical method-level analysis was used to check for usage of vulnerable methods in the project.

Method calls between your project and httpclient have been mapped into a directed graph. From this graph, it could be then be seen whether any vulnerable httpclient methods are being called from within your project.

Research Scope

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First impression checklist

• I have read this pull request description.
• I was aware of this dependency vulnerability affecting my project before being informed by this Pull Request.
• I was convinced by the provided method information that this vulnerability indeed affects my project.
• After seeing the provided method-level information, I plan on fixing the vulnerability.

After fixing vulnerability checklist

• I found that the provided method information has made my process of dealing with the vulnerable dependency easier.
• I have given priority to the task of fixing the vulnerability over other project tasks that are yet to be completed.
• I would like to receive this kind of method information in future vulnerable dependency Pull Request descriptions.