CVE-2018-9127

CRITICAL

Botan 2.2.0-2.4.0 - Improper Certificate Validation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Botan 2.2.0 - 2.4.0 (fixed in 2.5.0) improperly handled wildcard certificates and could accept certain certificates as valid for hostnames when, under RFC 6125 rules, they should not match. This only affects certificates issued to the same domain as the host, so to impersonate a host one must already have a wildcard certificate matching other hosts in the same domain. For example, b*.example.com would match some hostnames that do not begin with a 'b' character.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://botan.randombit.net/security.html

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0096
EPSS Percentile 57.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-295
Status published
Products (1)
botan_project/botan 2.2.0 - 2.4.0
Published Apr 02, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026