CVE-2014-9365

CVE Details

Release Date:	2014-12-11
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

The HTTP clients in the (1) httplib, (2) urllib, (3) urllib2, and (4)xmlrpclib libraries in CPython (aka Python) 2.x before 2.7.9 and 3.x before 3.4.3, when accessing an HTTPS URL, do not (a) check the certificate against a trust store or verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's (b) Common Name or (c) subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

See more information about CVE-2014-9365 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.8
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 7 (python)	ELSA-2017-1868	2017-08-07