Improper Certificate Validation Affecting awscrt package, versions [,0.11.25)


0.0
medium

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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NVD
8.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-AWSCRT-1924899
  • published 23 Nov 2021
  • disclosed 23 Nov 2021
  • credit Unknown

How 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.