GHSA-q48q-77qv-cf9pMediumCVSS 7.5
httplib2 incorrectly checks SSL certificate
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
httplib2 prior to version 0.10.1, after an initial connection is made, 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/httplib2:< 0.10.1
🔗 References (11)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2037
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/httplib2/+bug/1175272
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=706602
- http://code.google.com/p/httplib2/issues/detail?id=282
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/257
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1948-1
- https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/issues/5
- https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2/commit/40cbdcc8586f2292fa0e76a3e8c012f0cc9ed919
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200228052625/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52179
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/httplib2/PYSEC-2014-81.yaml
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q48q-77qv-cf9p