VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-9365

medium
Published 2014-12-12 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosaffected
debian debianbullseyefixed2.7.9-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
python pythonpython2.0
python pythonpython2.0.1
python pythonpython2.1
python pythonpython2.1.1
python pythonpython2.1.2
python pythonpython2.1.3
python pythonpython2.2
python pythonpython2.2.1
python pythonpython2.2.2
python pythonpython2.2.3
python pythonpython2.3.1
python pythonpython2.3.2
python pythonpython2.3.3
python pythonpython2.3.4
python pythonpython2.3.5
python pythonpython2.3.7
python pythonpython2.4.1
python pythonpython2.4.2
python pythonpython2.4.3
python pythonpython2.4.4
python pythonpython2.4.6
python pythonpython2.5.1
python pythonpython2.5.2
python pythonpython2.5.3
python pythonpython2.5.4
python pythonpython2.5.6
python pythonpython2.5.150
python pythonpython2.6.1
python pythonpython2.6.2
python pythonpython2.6.3
python pythonpython2.6.4
python pythonpython2.6.5
python pythonpython2.6.6
python pythonpython2.6.7
python pythonpython2.6.8
python pythonpython2.6.2150
python pythonpython2.6.6150
python pythonpython2.7.1
python pythonpython2.7.2
python pythonpython2.7.3
python pythonpython2.7.4
python pythonpython2.7.5
python pythonpython2.7.6
python pythonpython2.7.7
python pythonpython2.7.8
python pythonpython2.7.1150
python pythonpython2.7.2150
python pythonpython3.0
python pythonpython3.0.1
python pythonpython3.1
python pythonpython3.1.1
python pythonpython3.1.2
python pythonpython3.1.3
python pythonpython3.1.4
python pythonpython3.1.5
python pythonpython3.1.2150
python pythonpython3.2
python pythonpython3.2.0
python pythonpython3.2.1
python pythonpython3.2.2
python pythonpython3.2.3
python pythonpython3.2.4
python pythonpython3.2.5
python pythonpython3.2.6
python pythonpython3.2.2150
python pythonpython3.3
python pythonpython3.3.0
python pythonpython3.3.1
python pythonpython3.3.2
python pythonpython3.3.3
python pythonpython3.3.4
python pythonpython3.3.5
python pythonpython3.3.6
python pythonpython3.4
python pythonpython3.4.0
python pythonpython3.4.1
python pythonpython3.4.2

References

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