CVE-2011-0633

Public on 2011-05-13
Modified on 2014-09-14
Description
The Net::HTTPS module in libwww-perl (LWP) before 6.00, as used in WWW::Mechanize, LWP::UserAgent, and other products, when running in environments that do not set the If-SSL-Cert-Subject header, does not enable full validation of SSL certificates by default, which allows remote attackers to spoof servers via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks involving hostnames that are not properly validated. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a design limitation of the Net::HTTPS API, and separate implementations should be independently assigned CVE identifiers for not working around this limitation. However, because this API was modified within LWP, a single CVE identifier has been assigned.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.8
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 perl-libwww-perl 2011-10-31 ALAS-2011-17 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N