Improper Certificate Validation in security-framework · CVE-2017-18588 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Improper Certificate Validation in security-framework

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 25, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jun 13, 2023

Package

security-framework (Rust)

Affected versions

< 0.1.12

Patched versions

0.1.12

Description

If custom root certificates were registered with a ClientBuilder, the hostname of the target server would not be validated against its presented leaf certificate. This issue was fixed by properly configuring the trust evaluation logic to perform that check.

References

Reviewed Aug 19, 2021

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 25, 2021

Last updated Jun 13, 2023

Severity

Moderate

5.3

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N