CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-9015

3.7 LOW Published 2017-01-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-01-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
3.7 LOW — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.6 LOW — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-295

Description

Versions 1.17 and 1.18 of the Python urllib3 library suffer from a vulnerability that can cause them, in certain configurations, to not correctly validate TLS certificates. This places users of the library with those configurations at risk of man-in-the-middle and information leakage attacks. This vulnerability affects users using versions 1.17 and 1.18 of the urllib3 library, who are using the optional PyOpenSSL support for TLS instead of the regular standard library TLS backend, and who are using OpenSSL 1.1.0 via PyOpenSSL. This is an extremely uncommon configuration, so the security impact of this vulnerability is low.

Affected configurations

• python urllib3 1.17 • python urllib3 1.18

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness

References