CVE-2020-36477

Published Aug 23, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 5.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. The verification of X.509 certificates when matching the expected common name (the cn argument of mbedtls_x509_crt_verify) with the actual certificate name is mishandled: when the subjecAltName extension is present, the expected name is compared to any name in that extension regardless of its type. This means that an attacker could impersonate a 4-byte or 16-byte domain by getting a certificate for the corresponding IPv4 or IPv6 address (this would require the attacker to control that IP address, though).

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-23963 An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. The verification of X.509 certificates when matching the expected common name (the cn argument of mbedtls_x509_crt_verify) with the actual certificate name is mishandled: when the subjecAltName extension is present, the expected name is compared to any name in that extension regardless of its type. This means that an attacker could impersonate a 4-byte or 16-byte domain by getting a certificate for the corresponding IPv4 or IPv6 address (this would require the attacker to control that IP address, though).
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 5:30 PM
Reserved
Aug 23, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Aug 23, 2021, 2:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:15 AM