Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-107230 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-107230 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-107230?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.4, published 8 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- AsyncHttpClient 3.0.13, 2.16.1.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-107230?
- Yes: fixed in 3.0.14. Until then: Use a separate AsyncHttpClient instance per identity, and do not share one between authenticated and unauthenticated requests to a host that uses NTLM or Negotiate. Alternatively, disable connection pooling to prevent connection reuse.</anigation> <parameter name="timeline">[{"kind":"disclosed","at":"2026-10-08"}] Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2026-107230 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a software library.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-107230?
- Check whether you run AsyncHttpClient at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
How to fix
- Fixed in: 3.0.14
Use a separate AsyncHttpClient instance per identity, and do not share one between authenticated and unauthenticated requests to a host that uses NTLM or Negotiate. Alternatively, disable connection pooling to prevent connection reuse.</anigation> <parameter name="timeline">[{"kind":"disclosed","at":"2026-10-08"}]
Technical details
The vulnerability is a connection pool key collision in NTLM, Kerberos, and SPNEGO authentication handling. Three cases were not covered by a previous fix: unauthenticated requests reusing sockets authenticated by Kerberos/SPNEGO tickets, proxy realm identities not being differentiated in the pool key, and different realms with the same user name sharing connections. An attacker can send requests to a shared host that reuse authenticated sockets, causing the server to serve their request as a previously authenticated identity.
Affected products
- AsyncHttpClient AsyncHttpClient 3.0.13, 2.16.1
Identifiers
- CVE-2026-107230
- GHSA-v2j5-22fr-j62r