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CVE-2013-4314

The X509Extension in pyOpenSSL before 0.13.1 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Subject A

The X509Extension in pyOpenSSL before 0.13.1 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Subject Alternative Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.0025
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  • No active-exploitation, high-EPSS, or public-exploit signals - routine patching cadence
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3

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1
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
PyPI pyopenssl HIGH fixed in 0.13.1

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4.3
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Published to NVD30 Sep 2013 · 09:55 PM

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4
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:14154-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10214-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:11253-1
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