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pywbem: failure to check certificate hostname

Published May 5, 2014

Description

PyWBEM 0.7 and earlier does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

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Red Hat statement

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published May 5, 2014
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Nov 4, 2013
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Dec 17, 2013
GHSA-GH2C-6M38-C78J