BREW-AWSCURL-CVE-2016-9015 (GHSA-V4W5-P2HG-8FH6)

Vulnerability from osv_homebrew – Published: 2026-08-13 16:37 – Updated: 2026-09-09 23:42 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
Urllib3 Incorrect Certificate Validation
Details

Versions 1.17 and 1.18 of the Python urllib3 library suffer from a vulnerability that can cause them, in certain configurations, to not correctly validate TLS certificates. This places users of the library with those configurations at risk of man-in-the-middle and information leakage attacks. This vulnerability affects users using versions 1.17 and 1.18 of the urllib3 library, who are using the optional PyOpenSSL support for TLS instead of the regular standard library TLS backend, and who are using OpenSSL 1.1.0 via PyOpenSSL. This is an extremely uncommon configuration, so the security impact of this vulnerability is low.

Severity
3.7 (Low)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
References
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  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "fix": "bump",
        "range_state": "fixed",
        "resource": "urllib3",
        "resource_purl": "pkg:pypi/urllib3@2.7.0",
        "upstream_fixed_in": "1.18.1"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Homebrew",
        "name": "awscurl",
        "purl": "pkg:brew/awscurl"
      },
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            }
          ],
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        }
      ]
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  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "confidence": "high",
    "source": "matched",
    "strategy": "registry",
    "upstream_evidence": [
      {
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        "key": "pkg:pypi/urllib3@2.7.0",
        "name": "urllib3",
        "resource": "urllib3",
        "strategy": "registry",
        "subject_version": "2.7.0"
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "Versions 1.17 and 1.18 of the Python urllib3 library suffer from a vulnerability that can cause them, in certain configurations, to not correctly validate TLS certificates. This places users of the library with those configurations at risk of man-in-the-middle and information leakage attacks. This vulnerability affects users using versions 1.17 and 1.18 of the urllib3 library, who are using the optional PyOpenSSL support for TLS instead of the regular standard library TLS backend, and who are using OpenSSL 1.1.0 via PyOpenSSL. This is an extremely uncommon configuration, so the security impact of this vulnerability is low.",
  "id": "BREW-awscurl-CVE-2016-9015",
  "modified": "2026-09-09T23:42:43Z",
  "published": "2026-08-13T16:37:01Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9015"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/c32cdbc16a9634fa0f8c829d1270301570158715"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/urllib3/PYSEC-2017-98.yaml"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210123184150/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93941"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/27/6"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.3",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Urllib3 Incorrect Certificate Validation",
  "upstream": [
    "GHSA-v4w5-p2hg-8fh6",
    "CVE-2016-9015",
    "PYSEC-2017-98"
  ]
}



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