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botan 1.11.x before 1.11.22 improperly handles wildcard matching against hostnames, which might allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a valid X.509 certificate, as demonstrated by accepting *.example.com as a match for bar.foo.example.com

Published Apr 10, 2017

Description

botan 1.11.x before 1.11.22 improperly handles wildcard matching against hostnames, which might allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a valid X.509 certificate, as demonstrated by accepting *.example.com as a match for bar.foo.example.com.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-295

Improper Certificate Validation

References (2)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Apr 10, 2017
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Oct 14, 2015
Link CVE-2015-7826
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2015-7826
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2015-7826