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Improper Certificate Validation in urllib3

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Apr 19, 2019 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 19, 2023

Package

pip urllib3 (pip)

Affected versions

< 1.24.2

Patched versions

1.24.2

Description

The urllib3 library before 1.24.2 for Python mishandles certain cases where the desired set of CA certificates is different from the OS store of CA certificates, which results in SSL connections succeeding in situations where a verification failure is the correct outcome. This is related to use of the ssl_context, ca_certs, or ca_certs_dir argument.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 18, 2019
Reviewed Apr 19, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 19, 2019
Last updated Oct 19, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.680%
(80th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-11324

GHSA ID

GHSA-mh33-7rrq-662w

Source code

Credits

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