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CVE-2024-56521 (GCVE-0-2024-56521)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-27 00:00 – Updated: 2025-03-24 17:45
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in TCPDF before 6.8.0. If libcurl is used, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST and CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER are set unsafely.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-31 18:39 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
tecnick tcpdf Affected: 0 , < 6.8.0 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:tecnick:tcpdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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