CVE-2018-9127
CRITICALBotan 2.2.0-2.4.0 - Improper Certificate Validation
Title source: llmDescription
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