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CVE-2020-13955

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-10-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-295

Description

HttpUtils#getURLConnection method disables explicitly hostname verification for HTTPS connections making clients vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. Calcite uses internally this method to connect with Druid and Splunk so information leakage may happen when using the respective Calcite adapters. The method itself is in a utility class so people may use it to create vulnerable HTTPS connections for other applications. From Apache Calcite 1.26 onwards, the hostname verification will be performed using the default JVM truststore.

Affected products

• Apache Software Foundation Apache Calcite: before 1.26 — fixed in 1.26

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache Calcite 1.26. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0b0fbe2038388175951ce1028182d980f9e9a7328be13d52dab70bb3%40%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0b0fbe2038388175951ce1028182d980f9e9a7328be13d52dab70bb3%40%3Cdev.calcite.apache.org%3E

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