Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2014-1263
curl and libcurl 7.27.0 through 7.35.0, when using the SecureTransport/Darwinssl backend, as used in in Apple OS X 10.9.x before 10.9.2, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate when accessing a URL that uses a numerical IP address, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.
Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)
EPSS: 0.029 (85.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Apple Mac_os_x — versions 10.9
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- product-security@apple.com (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- product-security@apple.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- product-security@apple.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- product-security@apple.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- product-security@apple.com (x_refsource_MISC)
- product-security@apple.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- product-security@apple.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- product-security@apple.com (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- product-security@apple.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- product-security@apple.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)