CVE-2015-7826

Published: Apr 10, 2017Modified: May 13, 2026

9.8

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 5.9

Source: NVD

Description

botan 1.11.x before 1.11.22 improperly handles wildcard matching against hostnames, which might allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a valid X.509 certificate, as demonstrated by accepting *.example.com as a match for bar.foo.example.com.

Affected (1)

Products: Botan Project: Botan

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Botan Project Botan	Up to 1.11.21

Related CWEs

Improper Certificate Validation

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

References (4)

https://botan.randombit.net/security.html#id3

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311620

Source: cve@mitre.org

Issue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

https://botan.randombit.net/security.html#id3

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311620

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Issue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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