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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2011-0633
medium Nessus Plugin ID 217380
Synopsis
The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.Description
The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.- The Net::HTTPS module in libwww-perl (LWP) before 6.00, as used in WWW::Mechanize, LWP::UserAgent, and other products, when running in environments that do not set the If-SSL-Cert-Subject header, does not enable full validation of SSL certificates by default, which allows remote attackers to spoof servers via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks involving hostnames that are not properly validated. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a design limitation of the Net::HTTPS API, and separate implementations should be independently assigned CVE identifiers for not working around this limitation. However, because this API was modified within LWP, a single CVE identifier has been assigned. (CVE-2011-0633)
Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.
Solution
There is no known solution at this time.Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 217380
File Name: unpatched_CVE_2011_0633.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Misc.
Published: 3/3/2025
Updated: 3/3/2025
Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-0633
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.9
Temporal Score: 5.2
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/13/2011
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-0633