CVE-2012-5825

Advisory

Tweepy does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate, related to use of the Python httplib library.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

Tweepy does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate, related to use of the Python httplib library.

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5825
• http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79831