PT-2012-6137

CVE-2012-5825

Published

2012-11-04

Updated

2022-05-17

Description by

CVSS 3.1

7.4

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Tweepy (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue arises from Tweepy's failure to verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate. The problem is related to the use of the Python httplib library.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploitability

Exploit

Impacts

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Related identifiers

CVE-2012-5825

GHSA-PWX5-XG7G-WPC5

PYSEC-2012-17