Traffic interception via disabled certificate verification
Published Jul 6, 2022 · Updated Aug 6, 2024
Improper certificate validation in Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.x allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof trusted HTTPS peers. The HTTP client sets http.verify_mode to OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE, so it accepts peer certificates without validating their trust. Exploitation requires a position on the communication path; intercepted CloudForms traffic can then be read or modified as if it came from the intended service.
Summary
What happened
Improper certificate validation in Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5.x allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof trusted HTTPS peers. The HTTP client sets http.verify_mode to OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE, so it accepts peer certificates without validating their trust. Exploitation requires a position on the communication path; intercepted CloudForms traffic can then be read or modified as if it came from the intended service.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2014-8164
- Published
- Jul 6, 2022
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Vendor
- Red Hat
- Product
- Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine
- Classifications
- CWE-295, CAPEC-94, T1557
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Jul 6, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 6, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=Red Hat CloudForms 5.x
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