CVE-2018-9127

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation
Publication date:
02/04/2018
Last modified:
15/05/2018

Description

Botan 2.2.0 - 2.4.0 (fixed in 2.5.0) improperly handled wildcard certificates and could accept certain certificates as valid for hostnames when, under RFC 6125 rules, they should not match. This only affects certificates issued to the same domain as the host, so to impersonate a host one must already have a wildcard certificate matching other hosts in the same domain. For example, b*.example.com would match some hostnames that do not begin with a 'b' character.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:botan_project:botan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.2.0 (including) 2.4.0 (including)


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