Reported

March 15, 2017

Issued

October 1, 2020 (last modified: June 13, 2023)

Package

security-framework (crates.io)

Type

Vulnerability

Keywords

#mitm

Aliases

• CVE-2017-18588
• GHSA-jqqr-c2r2-9cvr

References

• https://github.com/sfackler/rust-security-framework/pull/27

CVSS Score

5.3 MEDIUM

CVSS Details

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Patched

• >=0.1.12

Description

If custom root certificates were registered with a ClientBuilder, the hostname of the target server would not be validated against its presented leaf certificate.

This issue was fixed by properly configuring the trust evaluation logic to perform that check.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.