| Name | CVE-2021-28363 |
| Description | The urllib3 library 1.26.x before 1.26.4 for Python omits SSL certificate validation in some cases involving HTTPS to HTTPS proxies. The initial connection to the HTTPS proxy (if an SSLContext isn't given via proxy_config) doesn't verify the hostname of the certificate. This means certificates for different servers that still validate properly with the default urllib3 SSLContext will be silently accepted. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| python-urllib3 (PTS) | bullseye | 1.26.5-1~exp1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1.26.5-1~exp1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.26.12-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.2.3-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[buster] - python-urllib3 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[stretch] - python-urllib3 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/security/advisories/GHSA-5phf-pp7p-vc2r
Fixed by: https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/8d65ea1ecf6e2cdc27d42124e587c1b83a3118b0 (1.26.4)
Support for HTTPS request via HTTPS proxies only introduced in 1.26.0.
In Debian urllib3 does require SSL certificate validation by default (since 1.3-3)
with the 02_require-cert-verification.patch patch (Cf. #686872).