CVE-2007-5162

Net: HTTP insufficient verification of SSL certificate

Published Oct 1, 2007 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 1.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
The connect method in lib/net/http.rb in the (1) Net::HTTP and (2) Net::HTTPS libraries in Ruby 1.8.5 and 1.8.6 does not verify that the commonName (CN) field in a server certificate matches the domain name in an HTTPS request, which makes it easier for remote attackers to intercept SSL transmissions via a man-in-the-middle attack or spoofed web site.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1410-1 New ruby1.8 packages fix insecure SSL certificate validation
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1411-1 New libopenssl-ruby packages fix insecure SSL certificate validation
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1412-1 New ruby1.9 packages fix insecure SSL certificate validation
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-5143 The connect method in lib/net/http.rb in the (1) Net::HTTP and (2) Net::HTTPS libraries in Ruby 1.8.5 and 1.8.6 does not verify that the commonName (CN) field in a server certificate matches the domain name in an HTTPS request, which makes it easier for remote attackers to intercept SSL transmissions via a man-in-the-middle attack or spoofed web site.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-596-1 Ruby vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/26985 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27044 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27432 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27576 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27673 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27756 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27764 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27769 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27818 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28645 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29556 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3180 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=13499 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=13500 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=13502 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=13504 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1410 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1411 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1412 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.isecpartners.com/advisories/2007-006-rubyssl.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:029 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_24_sr.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0961.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0965.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/480987/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483577/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25847 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-596-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3340 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=313791 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36861 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5162 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10738 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5162 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00087.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00097.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00391.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 3:24 PM
Reserved
Sep 30, 2007, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Oct 1, 2007, 5:17 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:45 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Sep 27, 2007, 12:00 AM