Versions 1.17 and 1.18 of the Python urllib3 library suffer from a vulnerability that can cause them, in certain configurations, to not correctly validate TLS certificates. This places users of the library with those configurations at risk of man-in-the-middle and information leakage attacks. This vulnerability affects users using versions 1.17 and 1.18 of the urllib3 library, who are using the optional PyOpenSSL support for TLS instead of the regular standard library TLS backend, and who are using OpenSSL 1.1.0 via PyOpenSSL. This is an extremely uncommon configuration, so the security impact of this vulnerability is low.
References
Link Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/27/6 Mailing List Mitigation
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93941 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-01-11T16:00:00

Updated: 2017-01-11T15:57:01

Reserved: 2016-10-25T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2016-9015

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-01-11T16:59:00.347

Modified: 2017-01-13T13:09:19.913


Link: CVE-2016-9015

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