GHSA-f9q5-46qg-74x4

PyWBEM TOCTOU vulnerability in certificate validation

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2013-6418

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	pywbem	< 0.8.1	0.8.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

PyWBEM 0.7 and earlier uses a separate connection to validate X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof a peer via an arbitrary certificate.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6418 advisory
https://github.com/pywbem/pywbem/commit/f7599379b26a685d772b2620a16316130f46c474 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039801 web
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pywbem/PYSEC-2014-93.yaml web
https://github.com/pywbem/pywbem package
https://web.archive.org/web/20161110005052/http://secunia.com/advisories/58327 web
https://web.archive.org/web/20200228040356/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64544 web
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2014/suse-su-20140580-1.html web
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/531 web
http://sourceforge.net/p/pywbem/code/627 web
http://sourceforge.net/p/pywbem/mailman/message/31757312 web
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html web