{ "cve": [ "CVE-2016-7099" ], "ref": "https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/743f0c9164", "vulnerable": "6.x || 4.x || 5.x", "patched": "^6.7.0 || ^4.6.0", "author": "Alexander Minozhenko and James Bunton (Atlassian)", "description": "invalid wildcard certificate validation check", "overview": "Fix invalid wildcard certificate validation check whereby a TLS server may be\nable to serve an invalid wildcard certificate for its hostname due to improper\nvalidation of `*.` in the wildcard string. \n\nThis is a high severity defect that would allow a malicious TLS server to serve\nan invalid wildcard certificate for its hostname and be improperly validated by\na Node.js client. This is due to a flaw in the validation of *. in the wildcard\nname string.\n\n", "affectedEnvironments": [ "all" ], "severity": "medium" }