CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-2037
2.6 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-01-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.6 LOW — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
httplib2 0.7.2, 0.8, and earlier, after an initial connection is made, 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
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 13.04
• httplib2 project httplib2 (<= 0.7.2)
• httplib2 project httplib2 0.8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=706602 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://code.google.com/p/httplib2/issues/detail?id=282 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/257 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52179 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1948-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/httplib2/+bug/1175272 Exploit, Patch
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=706602 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://code.google.com/p/httplib2/issues/detail?id=282 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/257 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52179 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1948-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/httplib2/+bug/1175272 Exploit, Patch