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CVE-2019-17598 (GCVE-0-2019-17598)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-05 14:53 – Updated: 2024-08-05 01:47
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Summary
An issue was discovered in Lightbend Play Framework 2.5.x through 2.6.23. When configured to make requests using an authenticated HTTP proxy, play-ws may sometimes, typically under high load, when connecting to a target host using https, expose the proxy credentials to the target host.
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