CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-10931

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Aug 26, 2019 | Modified: Feb 27, 2023
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

An issue was discovered in the openssl crate before 0.9.0 for Rust. There is an SSL/TLS man-in-the-middle vulnerability because certificate verification is off by default and there is no API for hostname verification.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Rust-openssl Rust-openssl_project * 0.9.0 (excluding)
Rust-openssl Ubuntu disco *
Rust-openssl Ubuntu trusty *

Potential Mitigations

References