CVE-2016-9015

Versions 1.17 and 1.18 of the Python urllib3 library suffer from a vulnerability that can cause them, in certain configurations, to not correctly validate TLS certificates. This places users of the library with those configurations at risk of man-in-the-middle and information leakage attacks. This vulnerability affects users using versions 1.17 and 1.18 of the urllib3 library, who are using the optional PyOpenSSL support for TLS instead of the regular standard library TLS backend, and who are using OpenSSL 1.1.0 via PyOpenSSL. This is an extremely uncommon configuration, so the security impact of this vulnerability is low.
References
Link Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93941 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/27/6 Mailing List Mitigation
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Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:python:urllib3:1.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:python:urllib3:1.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2017-01-11 08:59

Updated : 2017-01-13 05:09


NVD link : CVE-2016-9015

Mitre link : CVE-2016-9015


JSON object : View

CWE
CWE-295

Improper Certificate Validation

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Products Affected

python

  • urllib3