Improper Certificate Validation Affecting security package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-SECURITY-9887942
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed25 Jul 2017

Introduced: 25 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-7513  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 security.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream security package and not the security package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

It was found that Satellite 5 configured with SSL/TLS for the PostgreSQL backend failed to correctly validate X.509 server certificate host name fields. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to spoof a PostgreSQL server using a specially crafted X.509 certificate.