Improper Certificate Validation Affecting ckan package, versions [,2.10.10)[2.11.0,2.11.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-CKAN-16322872
  • published30 Apr 2026
  • disclosed29 Apr 2026
  • creditFrancis Bergin

Introduced: 29 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-41132  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ckan to version 2.10.10, 2.11.5 or higher.

Overview

ckan is a world’s leading Open Source data portal platform.

It powers dozens of Open Data portals around the world, including data.gov, open.canada.ca and europeandataportal.eu but also regional, research and community organizations.

It makes easy to publish, share and find data online and is fully customizable via extensions and plugins.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation via the SMTP connection. An attacker can intercept sensitive information, such as credentials and email contents, by performing a man-in-the-middle attack due to the lack of certificate validation.

CVSS Base Scores

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version 3.1