PyPi: Apache-Libcloud

CVE-2012-3446

Safety vulnerability ID: 25628

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The information on this page was manually curated by our Cybersecurity Intelligence Team.

Created at Nov 04, 2012 Updated at Mar 29, 2024

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Advisory

Apache Libcloud before 0.11.1 uses an incorrect regular expression during verification of whether the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a crafted certificate.

Affected package

apache-libcloud

Latest version: 3.8.0

A standard Python library that abstracts away differences among multiple cloud provider APIs. For more information and documentation, please see https://libcloud.apache.org

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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General
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- Fix hostname validation in the SSL verification code (CVE-2012-3446).

Reported by researchers from the University of Texas at Austin (Martin
Georgiev, Suman Jana and Vitaly Shmatikov).

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Severity Details

CVSS Base Score

MEDIUM 5.9

CVSS v3 Details

MEDIUM 5.9

Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact (C): NONE
Integrity Impact (I): HIGH
Availability Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2 Details

MEDIUM 5.8

Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (Au): NONE
Confidentiality Impact (C): PARTIAL
Integrity Impact (I): PARTIAL
Availability Impact (A): NONE