CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5822

7.4 HIGH Published 2012-11-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-11-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-295

Description

The contribution feature in Zamboni 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, related to use of the Python urllib2 library.

Affected configurations

• mozilla zamboni

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness
  • CWE-297 Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch weakness

References