Improper Certificate Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package botan (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-BOTAN-11736882
- published10 Aug 2025
- disclosed2 Apr 2018
Introduced: 2 Apr 2018
CVE-2018-9127 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:14.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream botan package and not the botan package as distributed by Debian.
Botan 2.2.0 - 2.4.0 (fixed in 2.5.0) improperly handled wildcard certificates and could accept certain certificates as valid for hostnames when, under RFC 6125 rules, they should not match. This only affects certificates issued to the same domain as the host, so to impersonate a host one must already have a wildcard certificate matching other hosts in the same domain. For example, b*.example.com would match some hostnames that do not begin with a 'b' character.