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CVE-2020-13614

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-05-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-295

Description

An issue was discovered in ssl.c in Axel before 2.17.8. The TLS implementation lacks hostname verification.

Affected products

• Axel Project Axel: before 2.17.8 — fixed in 2.17.8
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 33, 34
• openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0-sp1
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Axel Project Axel 2.17.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00006.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00010.html
• https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/issues/262
• https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/releases/tag/v2.17.8
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LPZUQSDGV5XDBJGHBWBHWJIBE47Q4QIB/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S3ECAKIZA2TGBYLUQTLGRMXUFIOGRHG3/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00006.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00010.html
• https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/issues/262
• https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/releases/tag/v2.17.8
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LPZUQSDGV5XDBJGHBWBHWJIBE47Q4QIB/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S3ECAKIZA2TGBYLUQTLGRMXUFIOGRHG3/

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