Improper Certificate Validation Affecting awscrt package, versions [,0.11.25)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.09% (38th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-AWSCRT-1924899
- 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 awscrt
to version 0.11.25 or higher.
Overview
awscrt is an A common runtime for AWS Python projects
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.