Improper Certificate Validation Affecting aws-crt package, versions <1.7.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-AWSCRT-1924945
  • published23 Nov 2021
  • disclosed23 Nov 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Nov 2021

CVE-2021-40828  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade aws-crt to version 1.7.1 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. It did not verify server certificate hostname during TLS handshake when overriding Certificate Authorities (CA) in their trust stores on Windows.

CVSS Scores

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