CVE-2016-7099

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Oct 10, 2016
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Aug 27, 2016

Description

The tls.checkServerIdentity function in Node.js 0.10.x before 0.10.47, 0.12.x before 0.12.16, 4.x before 4.6.0, and 6.x before 6.7.0 does not properly handle wildcards in name fields of X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a crafted certificate.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

93191vdb-entry
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2016-security-releases/
https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/743f0c916469f3129dfae406fa104dc46782e20b
RHSA-2017:0002vendor-advisory
SUSE-SU-2016:2470vendor-advisory

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