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DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9365

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9365 PUBLISHED

The HTTP clients in the (1) httplib, (2) urllib, (3) urllib2, and (4) xmlrpclib libraries in CPython (aka Python) 2.x before 2.7.9 and 3.x before 3.4.3, when accessing an HTTPS URL, do not (a) check the certificate against a trust store or verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's (b) Common Name or (c) subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11python2.70, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Dec 12, 2014 CVE Published
  • Aug 8, 2026 CVE Updated
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