CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-9488

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Apr 27, 2020 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
3.7
LOW
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Improper validation of certificate with host mismatch in Apache Log4j SMTP appender. This could allow an SMTPS connection to be intercepted by a man-in-the-middle attack which could leak any log messages sent through that appender. Fixed in Apache Log4j 2.12.3 and 2.13.1

Weakness

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

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Log4j Apache 2.0 (including) 2.3.2 (excluding)
Log4j Apache 2.4 (including) 2.12.3 (excluding)
Log4j Apache 2.13.0 (including) 2.13.2 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References