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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
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Updated: 2024-09-16T17:53:46.874Z
Reserved: 2011-01-20T00:00:00Z
Link: CVE-2011-0633

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2011-05-13T22:55:01.610
Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Link: CVE-2011-0633


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