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Restkit Does Not Validate TLS certificates

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 1, 2023

Package

pip restkit (pip)

Affected versions

<= 4.2.2

Patched versions

None

Description

Restkit allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof TLS servers by leveraging use of the ssl.wrap_socket function in Python with the default CERT_NONE value for the cert_reqs argument.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 9, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Aug 3, 2023
Last updated Sep 1, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.9
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2015-2674

GHSA ID

GHSA-p9cv-hrxr-fxx8

Source code

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