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Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch

CVE-2014-3522

Medium
4/10

Summary

The Serf RA layer in Apache Subversion 1.4.0 through 1.7.x before 1.7.18 and 1.8.x before 1.8.10 does not properly handle wildcards in the Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a crafted certificate.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-297 - Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch

The software communicates with a host that provides a certificate, but the software does not properly ensure that the certificate is actually associated with that host.

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  • Published