CVE-2014-2735 (GCVE-0-2014-2735)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-04-21 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 10:21
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
WinSCP before 5.5.3, when FTP with TLS is used, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.
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