CVE-2020-36477
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Aug 23, 2021
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 23, 2021
Description
An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. The verification of X.509 certificates when matching the expected common name (the cn argument of mbedtls_x509_crt_verify) with the actual certificate name is mishandled: when the subjecAltName extension is present, the expected name is compared to any name in that extension regardless of its type. This means that an attacker could impersonate a 4-byte or 16-byte domain by getting a certificate for the corresponding IPv4 or IPv6 address (this would require the attacker to control that IP address, though).
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Weaknesses
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Affected Products
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References
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