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CVE-2010-4334 (GCVE-0-2010-4334)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-01-14 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:43
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Summary
The IO::Socket::SSL module 1.35 for Perl, when verify_mode is not VERIFY_NONE, fails open to VERIFY_NONE instead of throwing an error when a ca_file/ca_path cannot be verified, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended certificate restrictions.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SULLR/IO-Socket-SS… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45189 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://osvdb.org/69626 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/09/8 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/24/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/42508 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606058 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2010-12-06 00:00
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      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2010-4334.json",
      "version": "4"
    }
  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


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.