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Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Affecting openssl package, versions <0.9.0

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Scope Changed
    Integrity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.11% (43rd percentile)
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NVD
8.1 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUST-OPENSSL-72297
  • published 4 Oct 2018
  • disclosed 6 Nov 2016
  • credit Alex Crichton
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Introduced: 6 Nov 2016

CVE-2016-10931 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-300 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade openSSL to version 0.9.0 or higher.

Overview

openssl is an OpenSSL bindings for Rust.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks due to insecure defaults, including off-by-default certificate verification and no API to perform hostname verification.