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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2013-2770

Severity Medium
Score 5.8/10

Summary

The installation functionality in the Novell Kanaka component before 2.8 for Novell Open Enterprise Server (OES) on Mac OS X does not verify the server's X.509 certificate during an SSL session, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via an arbitrary certificate.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published