CVE-2014-9365
EPSS 2.8%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2014-9365
To remediate CVE-2014-9365, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/python2.7—upgrade to 2.7.9-1 or later
Is CVE-2014-9365 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2.7.9-1