CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-10931
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-08-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-295
Description
An issue was discovered in the openssl crate before 0.9.0 for Rust. There is an SSL/TLS man-in-the-middle vulnerability because certificate verification is off by default and there is no API for hostname verification.
Affected configurations
• rust-openssl project rust-openssl (< 0.9.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness
References
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2016-0001.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2016-0001.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory