Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity Affecting tkinter package, versions <0:2.7.5-58.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.69% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-TKINTER-5193002
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed11 Dec 2014

Introduced: 11 Dec 2014

CVE-2014-9365  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-345  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 tkinter to version 0:2.7.5-58.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:1868.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tkinter package and not the tkinter package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

The HTTP clients in the (1) httplib, (2) urllib, (3) urllib2, and (4) xmlrpclib libraries in CPython (aka Python) 2.x before 2.7.9 and 3.x before 3.4.3, when accessing an HTTPS URL, do not (a) check the certificate against a trust store or verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's (b) Common Name or (c) subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

CVSS Scores

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