Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Affecting restkit package, versions [,4.2.2]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-RESTKIT-40319
  • published 12 Mar 2015
  • disclosed 12 Mar 2015
  • credit Donald Stufft

Overview

restkit is a Python REST kit.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks due to not properly validate SSL/TLS certificates. It uses the ssl.wrap_socket function from the standard library, which does not do any validation by default.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.9 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    None