Gentoo Portage does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers
High severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 17, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Nov 22, 2024
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Sep 29, 2014
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 17, 2022
Reviewed
Nov 22, 2024
Last updated
Nov 22, 2024
The urlopen function in pym/portage/util/_urlopen.py in Gentoo Portage 2.1.12, when using HTTPS, does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and modify binary package lists via a crafted certificate.
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