SSL Server Spoofing Vulnerability in Amazon S3 Library in Moodle

SSL Server Spoofing Vulnerability in Amazon S3 Library in Moodle

CVE-2012-6087 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

repository/s3/S3.php in the Amazon S3 library in Moodle through 2.2.11, 2.3.x before 2.3.9, 2.4.x before 2.4.6, and 2.5.x before 2.5.2 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, related to an incorrect CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST value.

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