Bug 873265 (CVE-2012-5825)

Summary:	CVE-2012-5825 tweepy: Does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's CN or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-05 13:27:57 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2012-5825 to the following vulnerability:

Tweepy 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 httplib library.

References:
[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
[2] https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/abstracts/ssl-client-bugs.html
[3] http://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2012/techprogram.shtml

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-05 13:38:27 UTC

Created tweepy tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 873275]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:59:33 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.