CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-7826

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2017-04-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-04-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-295

Description

botan 1.11.x before 1.11.22 improperly handles wildcard matching against hostnames, which might allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a valid X.509 certificate, as demonstrated by accepting *.example.com as a match for bar.foo.example.com.

Affected configurations

• botan project botan (<= 1.11.21)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness

References