Insecure Certificate Verification in Gentoo Portage 2.1.12

CVE-2013-2100 · HIGH Severity

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

The urlopen function in pym/portage/util/_urlopen.py in Gentoo Portage 2.1.12, when using HTTPS, does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and modify binary package lists via a crafted certificate.

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