CVE-2014-2522

Published Apr 18, 2014

Last updated 8 years ago

Overview

Description
curl and libcurl 7.27.0 through 7.35.0, when running on Windows and using the SChannel/Winssl TLS backend, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate when accessing a URL that uses a numerical IP address, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4
Impact score
4.9
Exploitability score
4.9
Vector string
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-20

Configurations