CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-2674

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Aug 09, 2017 | Modified: Aug 21, 2017
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Restkit allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof TLS servers by leveraging use of the ssl.wrap_socket function in Python with the default CERT_NONE value for the cert_reqs argument.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Restkit Restkit - (including) - (including)
Python-restkit Ubuntu artful *
Python-restkit Ubuntu bionic *
Python-restkit Ubuntu cosmic *
Python-restkit Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Python-restkit Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Python-restkit Ubuntu precise *
Python-restkit Ubuntu trusty *
Python-restkit Ubuntu upstream *
Python-restkit Ubuntu utopic *
Python-restkit Ubuntu vivid *
Python-restkit Ubuntu wily *
Python-restkit Ubuntu xenial *
Python-restkit Ubuntu yakkety *
Python-restkit Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

References