VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-5822

high
Published 2012-11-04 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
7.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v2
5.8
VIR risk
7.4

Description

The contribution feature in Zamboni does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate, related to use of the Python urllib2 library.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
82%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillazamboni-

References

CWEs

CWE-295

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.