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CVE-2016-7099

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-19

Description

The tls.checkServerIdentity function in Node.js 0.10.x before 0.10.47, 0.12.x before 0.12.16, 4.x before 4.6.0, and 6.x before 6.7.0 does not properly handle wildcards in name fields of X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers via a crafted certificate.

Affected products

• Node.js: 0.10.0, 0.10.1, 0.10.2, 0.10.3, 0.10.4, 0.10.5 (+91)
• SUSE Linux Enterprise: 12.0

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00013.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0002.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93191
• https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/743f0c916469f3129dfae406fa104dc46782e20b
• https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2016-security-releases/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00013.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0002.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93191
• https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/743f0c916469f3129dfae406fa104dc46782e20b
• https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2016-security-releases/

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