CVE-2023-52892 (GCVE-0-2023-52892)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-27 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-21 20:02
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
In phpseclib before 1.0.22, 2.x before 2.0.46, and 3.x before 3.0.33, some characters in Subject Alternative Name fields in TLS certificates are incorrectly allowed to have a special meaning in regular expressions (such as a + wildcard), leading to name confusion in X.509 certificate host verification.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-08-21 19:54 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-436 - Interpretation Conflict
Assigner
References
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.