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Alpine Linux: CVE-2014-3230: Improper Certificate Validation

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Jan 28, 2020

Added

Mar 26, 2024

Modified

Jun 18, 2026

Description

The libwww-perl LWP::Protocol::https module 6.04 through 6.06 for Perl, when using IO::Socket::SSL as the SSL socket class, allows attackers to disable server certificate validation via the (1) HTTPS_CA_DIR or (2) HTTPS_CA_FILE environment variable.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-perl-lwp-protocol-https

References

CVE-2014-3230
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2014-3230
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2014-3230
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2014-3246
CWE-295
EUVD-EUVD-2014-3246

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