[HBASE-15767] Upgrade httpclient dependency

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: build, dependencies
• Release Note: HBase now relies on version 4.3.6 of the Apache Commons HTTPClient library. Downstream users who are exposed to it via the HBase classpath will have to similarly update their dependency.
• Assignee: Ted Yu
• Reporter: Ted Yu
• Created: 04/May/16 18:25
• Updated: 06/May/16 00:06
• Resolved: 05/May/16 20:55

Description

Currently commons-httpclient 3.1 is used.

This is already end-of-life by apache.
We should move to 4.3.6 or later.

Details:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12767
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10105

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-5262 : http/conn/ssl/SSLConnectionSocketFactory.java in Apache HttpComponents HttpClient before 4.3.6 ignores the http. socket.timeout configuration setting during an SSL handshake, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (HTTPS call hang) via unspecified vectors.

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-6153
https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-5783
Apache Commons HttpClient 3.x, as used in Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) merchant Java SDK and other products, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.