CVE-2013-6418

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-05-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

PyWBEM 0.7 and earlier uses a separate connection to validate X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof a peer via an arbitrary certificate.

Affected products

Pywbem Project Pywbem: through 0.7

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/531
http://secunia.com/advisories/58327
http://sourceforge.net/p/pywbem/code/627/
http://sourceforge.net/p/pywbem/mailman/message/31757312/
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64544
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039801
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2014/suse-su-20140580-1.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/531
http://secunia.com/advisories/58327
http://sourceforge.net/p/pywbem/code/627/
http://sourceforge.net/p/pywbem/mailman/message/31757312/

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