CVE-2015-7826

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-7826
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-04-10 15:59:00 UTC
Updated2017-04-15 00:40:00 UTC
Descriptionbotan 1.11.x before 1.11.22 improperly handles wildcard matching against hostnames, which might allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a valid X.509 certificate, as demonstrated by accepting *.example.com as a match for bar.foo.example.com.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-295

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Botan Project Botan All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Security — Botan CONFIRM botan.randombit.net Vendor Advisory
1311620 – (CVE-2015-7826) CVE-2015-7826 botan: acceptance of invalid certificate names CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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