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CVE-2015-7826 (GCVE-0-2015-7826)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-10 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:59
VLAI
Summary
botan 1.11.x before 1.11.22 improperly handles wildcard matching against hostnames, which might allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a valid X.509 certificate, as demonstrated by accepting *.example.com as a match for bar.foo.example.com.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-10-26 00:00
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