The Net::HTTPS module in libwww-perl (LWP) before 6.00, as used in WWW::Mechanize, LWP::UserAgent, and other products, when running in environments that do not set the If-SSL-Cert-Subject header, does not enable full validation of SSL certificates by default, which allows remote attackers to spoof servers via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks involving hostnames that are not properly validated. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a design limitation of the Net::HTTPS API, and separate implementations should be independently assigned CVE identifiers for not working around this limitation. However, because this API was modified within LWP, a single CVE identifier has been assigned.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2011-05-13T22:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T17:53:46.874Z

Reserved: 2011-01-20T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2011-0633

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-05-13T22:55:01.610

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:24:29.673

Link: CVE-2011-0633

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2011-03-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-0633 - Bugzilla