What is CVE-2015-2674?

CVE-2015-2674 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Restkit, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2017-08-09.

How severe is CVE-2015-2674?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Restkit

CVE-2015-2674

Restkit allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof TLS servers by leveraging use of the ssl.wrap_socket function in Python with the default CERT_NONE value for the cert_reqs argument.

Vulnerability class: Improper Certificate Validation

Published 2017-08-09 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.014 (70.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 70.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.014 · newest: 0.014 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Restkit

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/23/7 (mailing-list, Mailing List, VDB Entry)
github.com/benoitc/restkit/issues/140 (Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-2674?: CVE-2015-2674 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Restkit, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2017-08-09.
How severe is CVE-2015-2674?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.