CVE-2016-10931

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Summary

CVECVE-2016-10931
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-08-26 12:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-27 19:19:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the openssl crate before 0.9.0 for Rust. There is an SSL/TLS man-in-the-middle vulnerability because certificate verification is off by default and there is no API for hostname verification.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-295

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openssl Project Openssl All All All All
Application Openssl Project Openssl All All All All
Application Rust-openssl Project Rust-openssl All All All All

References

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RUSTSEC-2016-0001: openssl: SSL/TLS MitM vulnerability due to insecure defaults › RustSec Advisory Database MISC rustsec.org Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
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