GHSA-gh2c-6m38-c78jMedium
PyWBEM TOCTOU vulnerability in certificate validation
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
PyWBEM 0.7 and earlier 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.
🎯 Affected products1
- pip/pywbem:< 0.8.1
🔗 References (10)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6444
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1044246
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/524
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- https://github.com/pywbem/pywbem/commit/f7599379b26a685d772b2620a16316130f46c474
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200228035408/https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64544
- http://sourceforge.net/p/pywbem/code/627
- http://sourceforge.net/p/pywbem/mailman/message/31757312
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pywbem/PYSEC-2014-94.yaml
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gh2c-6m38-c78j