CVE-2020-17514 (GCVE-0-2020-17514)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-27 12:10 – Updated: 2024-08-04 14:00
VLAI
Title
disabled hostname verificiation
Summary
Apache Fineract prior to 1.5.0 disables HTTPS hostname verification in ProcessorHelper in the configureClient method. Under typical deployments, a man in the middle attack could be successful.
Severity
7.4 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • Missing Hostname Verification
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Fineract Affected: Apache Fineract , < 1.5.0 (custom)
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Credits
We would like to thank Simon Gerst at https://github.com/intrigus-lgtm for reporting this issue
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