CVE-2013-2037
LOW · CVSS 2.6EPSS 1.3%EU EUVD
httplib2 0.7.2, 0.8, and earlier, after an initial connection is made, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's 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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 1.3% (71th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-0021)
- Published
- January 18, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-0021 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- httplib2 project / httplib2
- httplib2 project / httplib2
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=706602(Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://code.google.com/p/httplib2/issues/detail?id=282(Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/257(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52179(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1948-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/httplib2/+bug/1175272(Exploit, Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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