CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.9. It affects OpenSSL. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2015-1855
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.9
EPSS
2.81%
OpenSSL
Original NVD Description
verify_certificate_identity in the OpenSSL extension in Ruby before 2.0.0 patchlevel 645, 2.1.x before 2.1.6, and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 does not properly validate hostnames, which allows remote attackers to spoof servers via vectors related to (1) multiple wildcards, (1) wildcards in IDNA names, (3) case sensitivity, and (4) non-ASCII characters.
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