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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:39:31 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>
cc: cve-assign@...re.org,
        "oss-security@...ts.openwall.com" <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request: Python, standard library HTTP clients


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> When Python's standard library HTTP clients (httplib, urllib, urllib2,
> xmlrpclib) are used to access resources with HTTPS, by default the
> certificate
> is not checked against any trust store, nor is the hostname in the
> certificate
> checked against the requested host. It was possible to configure a trust
> root
> to be checked against, however there were no faculties for hostname
> checking.
> 
> This made MITM attacks against the HTTP clients trivial, and violated RFC
> 2818
> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2818#section-3).
> 
> Python 2.7.9 has been issued to resolve this issue. It is also resolved in
> 3.4.3, which has not yet been released.

Use CVE-2014-9365.

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CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority M/S M300
202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA
[ PGP key available through http://cve.mitre.org/cve/request_id.html ]
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