CVE-2013-1909
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-08-23 16:00
Modified
2024-09-16 17:42
Severity ?
Summary
The Python client in Apache Qpid before 2.2 does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.
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