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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-12-12T11:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:40:25.293Z

Reserved: 2014-12-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-9365

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-12-12T11:59:07.063

Modified: 2019-10-25T11:53:59.117

Link: CVE-2014-9365

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-12-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-9365 - Bugzilla