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CVE-2014-9365

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
12/12/2014
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

The HTTP clients in the (1) httplib, (2) urllib, (3) urllib2, and (4) xmlrpclib libraries in CPython (aka Python) 2.x before 2.7.9 and 3.x before 3.4.3, when accessing an HTTPS URL, do not (a) check the certificate against a trust store or verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's (b) Common Name or (c) subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
5.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:python:2.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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