Security Advisory

CVE-2012-5825

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-11-04 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 21:21:27
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Tweepy does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subjects Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate, related to use of the Python httplib library.