CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-7440
5.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-06-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-19
Description
The ssl.match_hostname function in CPython (aka Python) before 2.7.9 and 3.x before 3.3.3 does not properly handle wildcards in hostnames, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a crafted certificate.
Affected configurations
• python python (<= 2.7.8)
• python python 3.0
• python python 3.0.1
• python python 3.1
• python python 3.1.1
• python python 3.1.2
• python python 3.1.3
• python python 3.1.4
• python python 3.1.5
• python python 3.1.2150
• python python 3.2
• python python 3.2.0
• python python 3.2.1
• python python 3.2.2
• python python 3.2.3
• python python 3.2.4
• python python 3.2.5
• python python 3.2.6
• python python 3.2.2150
• python python 3.3
• python python 3.3.0
• python python 3.3.1
• python python 3.3.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/483 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/523 seclists.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74707 www.securityfocus.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1166 access.redhat.com
- https://bugs.python.org/issue17997 bugs.python.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224999 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/10d0edadbcdd hg.python.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/483 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/523 seclists.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74707 www.securityfocus.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1166 access.redhat.com
- https://bugs.python.org/issue17997 bugs.python.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224999 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/10d0edadbcdd hg.python.org