CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-3024

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2009-08-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-08-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-310

Description

The verify_hostname_of_cert function in the certificate checking feature in IO-Socket-SSL (IO::Socket::SSL) 1.14 through 1.25 only matches the prefix of a hostname when no wildcard is used, which allows remote attackers to bypass the hostname check for a certificate.

Affected configurations

• io-socket-ssl io-socket-ssl 1.14 • io-socket-ssl io-socket-ssl 1.15 • io-socket-ssl io-socket-ssl 1.16 • io-socket-ssl io-socket-ssl 1.16 1 • io-socket-ssl io-socket-ssl 1.16 2 • io-socket-ssl io-socket-ssl 1.16 3 • io-socket-ssl io-socket-ssl 1.17 • io-socket-ssl io-socket-ssl 1.18 • io-socket-ssl io-socket-ssl 1.19 • io-socket-ssl io-socket-ssl 1.20 • io-socket-ssl io-socket-ssl 1.21 • io-socket-ssl io-socket-ssl 1.22 • io-socket-ssl io-socket-ssl 1.23 • io-socket-ssl io-socket-ssl 1.24 • io-socket-ssl io-socket-ssl 1.25

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References