CVE-2016-10931

HIGH

rust-openssl < 0.9.0 - Improper Certificate Validation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in the openssl crate before 0.9.0 for Rust. There is an SSL/TLS man-in-the-middle vulnerability because certificate verification is off by default and there is no API for hostname verification.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2016-0001.html

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1
EPSS 0.0075
EPSS Percentile 49.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-295
Status published
Products (2)
crates.io/openssl 0 - 0.9.0crates.io
rust-openssl_project/rust-openssl < 0.9.0
Published Aug 26, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026