CVE-2015-7826

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-04-10

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-295

Affected products

• Botan (Botan Project)

References

• https://botan.randombit.net/security.html#id3
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311620