nv-websocket-client allows attackers to spoof SSL/TLS servers via an arbitrary valid certificate
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 17, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 29, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Nov 17, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 17, 2022
Reviewed
Nov 8, 2022
Last updated
Jan 29, 2023
The Java WebSocket client nv-websocket-client 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/TLS servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.
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