{ "document": { "category": "csaf_security_advisory", "csaf_version": "2.0", "distribution": { "tlp": { "label": "WHITE", "url": "https://www.first.org/tlp/" } }, "lang": "en", "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "The Net::HTTPS module in libwww-perl (LWP) before 6.00, as used in WWW::Mechanize, LWP::UserAgent, and other products, when running in environments that do not set the If-SSL-Cert-Subject header, does not enable full validation of SSL certificates by default, which allows remote attackers to spoof servers via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks involving hostnames that are not properly validated.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "publisher": { "category": "other", "contact_details": "gdt@cpan.org", "name": "giterlizzi", "namespace": "https://github.com/giterlizzi/" }, "references": [ { "category": "self", "summary": "CPANSA-libwww-perl-2011-01 JSON", "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/giterlizzi/perl-CPANSA-CSAF/develop/csaf/white/2011/cpansa-libwww-perl-2011-01.json" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "http://vttynotes.blogspot.com/2010/12/man-in-middle-fun-with-perl-lwp.html", "url": "http://vttynotes.blogspot.com/2010/12/man-in-middle-fun-with-perl-lwp.html" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "http://vttynotes.blogspot.com/2011/03/quick-note-on-lwp-and-perl-security-cve.html", "url": "http://vttynotes.blogspot.com/2011/03/quick-note-on-lwp-and-perl-security-cve.html" }, { "category": "external", "summary": "CVE-2011-0633 (NVD)", "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0633" } ], "title": "libwww-perl vulnerability", "tracking": { "current_release_date": "2011-01-20T00:00:00", "generator": { "engine": { "name": "CSAF Perl Toolkit", "version": "0.26" } }, "id": "CPANSA-libwww-perl-2011-01", "initial_release_date": "2011-01-20T00:00:00", "revision_history": [ { "date": "2011-01-20T00:00:00", "number": "1", "summary": "First release" } ], "status": "final", "version": "1" } }, "product_tree": { "branches": [ { "branches": [ { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/<6.00", "product": { "name": "libwww-perl less than 6.00", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0001" } }, { "category": "product_version_range", "name": "vers:cpan/>=6.00", "product": { "name": "libwww-perl greater than or equal 6.00", "product_id": "CSAFPID-0002" } } ], "category": "product_name", "name": "libwww-perl" } ] }, "vulnerabilities": [ { "cve": "CVE-2011-0633", "cwe": { "id": "CWE-20", "name": "Improper Input Validation" }, "notes": [ { "category": "description", "text": "The Net::HTTPS module in libwww-perl (LWP) before 6.00, as used in WWW::Mechanize, LWP::UserAgent, and other products, when running in environments that do not set the If-SSL-Cert-Subject header, does not enable full validation of SSL certificates by default, which allows remote attackers to spoof servers via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks involving hostnames that are not properly validated. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a design limitation of the Net::HTTPS API, and separate implementations should be independently assigned CVE identifiers for not working around this limitation. However, because this API was modified within LWP, a single CVE identifier has been assigned.", "title": "Vulnerability Description" } ], "product_status": { "fixed": [ "CSAFPID-0002" ], "known_affected": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] }, "scores": [ { "cvss_v2": { "baseScore": 4.3, "vectorString": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N", "version": "2.0" }, "products": [ "CSAFPID-0001" ] } ] } ] }