An issue was discovered in Mbed TLS before 2.24.0. The verification of X.509 certificates when matching the expected common name (the cn argument of mbedtls_x509_crt_verify) with the actual certificate name is mishandled: when the subjecAltName extension is present, the expected name is compared to any name in that extension regardless of its type. This means that an attacker could impersonate a 4-byte or 16-byte domain by getting a certificate for the corresponding IPv4 or IPv6 address (this would require the attacker to control that IP address, though).
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2021-08-23T00:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-04T17:30:08.378Z
Reserved: 2021-08-23T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-36477
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2021-08-23T02:15:07.043
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:29:38.067
Link: CVE-2020-36477
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