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

Weakness classification (CWE)

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