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ASF subversion and git services commented on HTTPCLIENT-2337:
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Commit db623f88546de694542f80dd737b5e938879e8d1 in httpcomponents-client's 
branch refs/heads/master from Arturo Bernal
[ https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=httpcomponents-client.git;h=db623f885 ]

HTTPCLIENT-2337: Sanitize X500Principal Logging in ClientTlsStrategy classes 
(#581)

* HTTPCLIENT-2337: Add sanitizeX500Principal method to escape control 
characters in X500Principal. Escapes ISO control characters in X500Principal 
using hexadecimal representation.

* Remove "Escaped" from debug log message

* Use a single call to append() for each character in toEscapedString()

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Co-authored-by: Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@users.noreply.github.com>

> Potentially unsafe logging of X500Principal in SSLConnectionSocketFactory
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HTTPCLIENT-2337
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-2337
>             Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 4.5.14, 5.3.1, 5.4-beta1
>            Reporter: Winfried Gerlach
>            Priority: Trivial
>             Fix For: 5.4.1
>
>         Attachments: example-cert.pem, image-2024-09-03-08-43-06-757.png
>
>          Time Spent: 2h 20m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> We noticed that in both Apache HTTP Client 4.x and 5.x, 
> {{SSLConnectionSocketFactory}} logs the X500Principal on DEBUG level without 
> sanitizing the fields. If, e.g., the CN contains control characters like 
> {{\b}} or {{{}\n{}}}, this could be used by an attacker to tamper with the 
> log of the application (remove stuff, add line breaks etc.).
> !image-2024-09-03-08-43-06-757.png!
> In the screenshot, the CN has a \b after "Control", so the last letter "l" is 
> removed from the log.
> We don't consider this behavior particularly dangerous because it happens on 
> debug level only and the logger can also be turned off completely if needed.
> You may still want to think about sanitizing the RDN values before logging or 
> somehow avoiding to log the X500Principal completely.



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