AsyncHttpClient: Cookie stored for an unrelated domain (cookie tossing) via ThreadSafeCookieStore
At a glance
Severity
MEDIUM 4.0
EPSS
EPSS 0.33 % · percentile 26 (2026-10-28)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis
Description
The AsyncHttpClient (AHC) library allows Java applications to easily execute HTTP requests and asynchronously process HTTP responses. In versions from 2.0.0 prior to 2.16.0 and from 3.0.0.Beta1 prior to 3.0.11, ThreadSafeCookieStore stored a cookie under the value of its Domain attribute without verifying that the responding host is allowed to set a cookie for that domain, leading to a cookie tossing / cookie injection issue. A host the client connects to can therefore plant a cookie scoped to an unrelated domain, and the client will then send that cookie on later requests to that domain. Applications that use a single AsyncHttpClient instance - and thus the default, shared CookieStore - to reach both an attacker-influenced host and a trusted host are impacted. This issue has been fixed in versions 2.16.0 and 3.0.11.
