CVE-2020-36477

An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. The verification of X.509 certificates when matching the expected common name (the cn argument of mbedtls_x509_crt_verify) with the actual certificate name is mishandled: when the subjecAltName extension is present, the expected name is compared to any name in that extension regardless of its type. This means that an attacker could impersonate a 4-byte or 16-byte domain by getting a certificate for the corresponding IPv4 or IPv6 address (this would require the attacker to control that IP address, though).
References
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:arm:mbed_tls:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Information

Published : 2021-08-23 02:15

Updated : 2024-02-28 18:28


NVD link : CVE-2020-36477

Mitre link : CVE-2020-36477

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2020-36477


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Products Affected

arm

  • mbed_tls
CWE
CWE-295

Improper Certificate Validation