PT-2017-7278

CVE-2015-7826

Published

2017-04-10

Updated

2018-09-10

Description by

CVSS 2.0

7.5

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions botan versions 1.11.x through 1.11.21

Description The issue improperly handles wildcard matching against hostnames. This might allow remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a valid X.509 certificate, as demonstrated by accepting *.example.com as a match for bar.foo.example.com.

Recommendations For botan versions 1.11.x through 1.11.21, update to version 1.11.22 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploitability

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Andrej Nemec

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation

Related identifiers

CVE-2015-7826