CVE-2014-3230
5.9
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.65%
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.
How to fix CVE-2014-3230
To remediate CVE-2014-3230, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/perl-lwp-protocol-https—upgrade to 6.11-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 6.04-3 or later
Is CVE-2014-3230 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 6.11-r0
- from 0, < 6.04-3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |