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Re: Another Python app (rhn-setup: rhnreg_ks) not checking hostnames in certs properly CVE-2015-1777
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 11:36:45 -0700
On 05/03/15 10:06 AM, John Haxby wrote:
PEP 476 cites 11 CVEs that resulted from python not properly validating certificates. This would be number 12. Shouldn't python versions prior to 2.7.9 and 3.4.3 have a CVE each for the lack of verification? If internal corporate software stops working because of invalid certificates, wasn't it broken anyway?
So if something is advertised as having a security feature and does not or it is broken then it gets a CVE. In this case Python, and basically every other SSL/TLS implementation on the planet, by default, did not check hostnames in certs, but they did provide that capability should you choose to use it. So no CVE since it wasn't "meant to be secure" as I understand it. Now for my personal opinion: Doing SSL/TLS with server certs and not checking the hostname in a server cert is completely insane and utterly defeats the purpose. However there are cases where a certificate may not have a hostname field, or need a valid hostname field, e.g. a client certificate where you mostly care about the fact that the client has it at all. So I can see why they made hostname checks optional, but again, I think it was a very bad decision long term as evidenced by: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=certificate+hostname+check
jch
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- Re: Another Python app (rhn-setup: rhnreg_ks) not checking hostnames in certs properly CVE-2015-1777 Kurt Seifried (Mar 05)
- Re: Another Python app (rhn-setup: rhnreg_ks) not checking hostnames in certs properly CVE-2015-1777 Michael Samuel (Mar 05)
- Re: Another Python app (rhn-setup: rhnreg_ks) not checking hostnames in certs properly CVE-2015-1777 Kurt Seifried (Mar 05)
- Re: Another Python app (rhn-setup: rhnreg_ks) not checking hostnames in certs properly CVE-2015-1777 John Haxby (Mar 06)
- Re: Another Python app (rhn-setup: rhnreg_ks) not checking hostnames in certs properly CVE-2015-1777 Kurt Seifried (Mar 06)
- Re: Another Python app (rhn-setup: rhnreg_ks) not checking hostnames in certs properly CVE-2015-1777 John Haxby (Mar 08)
- Re: Another Python app (rhn-setup: rhnreg_ks) not checking hostnames in certs properly CVE-2015-1777 Kurt Seifried (Mar 09)
- Re: Another Python app (rhn-setup: rhnreg_ks) not checking hostnames in certs properly CVE-2015-1777 John Haxby (Mar 09)
- Re: Another Python app (rhn-setup: rhnreg_ks) not checking hostnames in certs properly CVE-2015-1777 Kurt Seifried (Mar 09)
- Re: Another Python app (rhn-setup: rhnreg_ks) not checking hostnames in certs properly CVE-2015-1777 John Haxby (Mar 10)
- Re: Another Python app (rhn-setup: rhnreg_ks) not checking hostnames in certs properly CVE-2015-1777 Michael Samuel (Mar 10)
- Re: Another Python app (rhn-setup: rhnreg_ks) not checking hostnames in certs properly CVE-2015-1777 Kurt Seifried (Mar 04)
- Re: Another Python app (rhn-setup: rhnreg_ks) not checking hostnames in certs properly CVE-2015-1777 Donald Stufft (Mar 04)