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CVE-2014-9365

First published: Thu Dec 11 2014(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
redhat/Python<2.7.9
2.7.9
redhat/Python<3.4.3
3.4.3
Python Programming Language=2.0
Python Programming Language=2.0.1
Python Programming Language=2.1
Python Programming Language=2.1.1
Python Programming Language=2.1.2
Python Programming Language=2.1.3
Python Programming Language=2.2
Python Programming Language=2.2.1
Python Programming Language=2.2.2
Python Programming Language=2.2.3
Python Programming Language=2.3.1
Python Programming Language=2.3.2
Python Programming Language=2.3.3
Python Programming Language=2.3.4
Python Programming Language=2.3.5
Python Programming Language=2.3.7
Python Programming Language=2.4.1
Python Programming Language=2.4.2
Python Programming Language=2.4.3
Python Programming Language=2.4.4
Python Programming Language=2.4.6
Python Programming Language=2.5.1
Python Programming Language=2.5.2
Python Programming Language=2.5.3
Python Programming Language=2.5.4
Python Programming Language=2.5.6
Python Programming Language=2.5.150
Python Programming Language=2.6.1
Python Programming Language=2.6.2
Python Programming Language=2.6.3
Python Programming Language=2.6.4
Python Programming Language=2.6.5
Python Programming Language=2.6.6
Python Programming Language=2.6.7
Python Programming Language=2.6.8
Python Programming Language=2.6.2150
Python Programming Language=2.6.6150
Python Programming Language=2.7.1
Python Programming Language=2.7.1-rc1
Python Programming Language=2.7.2-rc1
Python Programming Language=2.7.3
Python Programming Language=2.7.4
Python Programming Language=2.7.5
Python Programming Language=2.7.6
Python Programming Language=2.7.7
Python Programming Language=2.7.8
Python Programming Language=2.7.1150
Python Programming Language=2.7.1150
Python Programming Language=2.7.2150
Python Programming Language=3.0
Python Programming Language=3.0.1
Python Programming Language=3.1
Python Programming Language=3.1.1
Python Programming Language=3.1.2
Python Programming Language=3.1.3
Python Programming Language=3.1.4
Python Programming Language=3.1.5
Python Programming Language=3.1.2150
Python Programming Language=3.2
Python Programming Language=3.2-alpha
Python Programming Language=3.2.0
Python Programming Language=3.2.1
Python Programming Language=3.2.2
Python Programming Language=3.2.3
Python Programming Language=3.2.4
Python Programming Language=3.2.5
Python Programming Language=3.2.6
Python Programming Language=3.2.2150
Python Programming Language=3.3
Python Programming Language=3.3-beta2
Python Programming Language=3.3.0
Python Programming Language=3.3.1
Python Programming Language=3.3.1-rc1
Python Programming Language=3.3.2
Python Programming Language=3.3.3
Python Programming Language=3.3.3-rc1
Python Programming Language=3.3.3-rc2
Python Programming Language=3.3.4
Python Programming Language=3.3.4-rc1
Python Programming Language=3.3.5
Python Programming Language=3.3.5-rc1
Python Programming Language=3.3.5-rc2
Python Programming Language=3.3.6-rc1
Python Programming Language=3.4-alpha1
Python Programming Language=3.4.0
Python Programming Language=3.4.1
Python Programming Language=3.4.2
macOS Yosemite<=10.10.4

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