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CVE-2015-2318

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Jan 08, 2018 | Modified: Jan 30, 2018
CVSS 3.x
8.1
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2318
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/295.html

The TLS stack in Mono before 3.12.1 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to conduct message skipping attacks and consequently impersonate clients by leveraging missing handshake state validation, aka a SMACK SKIP-TLS issue.

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Mono Mono-project * 3.12.1 (excluding)
Mono Ubuntu devel *
Mono Ubuntu lucid *
Mono Ubuntu precise *
Mono Ubuntu trusty *
Mono Ubuntu upstream *
Mono Ubuntu utopic *

Potential Mitigations

References

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