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

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

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/28/2020
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
04/09/2024

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(s)

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

References

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