CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-5243

5.8 MEDIUM Published 2012-11-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-11-06
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

TwitterOAuth 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.

Affected configurations

• abraham williams twitteroauth

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References