Improper Certificate Validation Affecting aws-crt package, versions <1.8.2
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.11% (45th
percentile)
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- published 23 Nov 2021
- disclosed 23 Nov 2021
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 23 Nov 2021
CVE-2021-40829 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade aws-crt to version 1.8.2 or higher.
Overview
aws-crt is a NodeJS/browser bindings to the aws-c-* libraries
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation. The connections which were initialized by the package did not verify server certificate hostname during TLS handshake when overriding Certificate Authorities (CA) in their trust stores on MacOS.
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