CVE-2014-9365

The HTTP clients in the (1) httplib, (2) urllib, (3) urllib2, and (4) xmlrpclib libraries in CPython (aka Python) 2.x before 2.7.9 and 3.x before 3.4.3, when…

published December 12, 2014

CVSS
—
EPSS
3%
Percentile
87.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The HTTP clients in the (1) httplib, (2) urllib, (3) urllib2, and (4) xmlrpclib libraries in CPython (aka Python) 2.x before 2.7.9 and 3.x before 3.4.3, when accessing an HTTPS URL, do not (a) check the certificate against a trust store or verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's (b) Common Name or (c) subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03012 · 87.2th percentile
Published
2014-12-12T11:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 DEC 11:00Z
    The HTTP clients in the (1) httplib, (2) urllib, (3) urllib2, and (4) xmlrpclib libraries in CPython (aka Python) 2.x before 2.7.9 and 3.x before 3.4.3, when…
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