CWE-297 Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch

variant

The product communicates with a host that provides a certificate, but the product does not properly ensure that the certificate is actually associated with that host.

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parent weaknesses

Broader classes this is a kind of.

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vulnerabilities (122)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2018-10936UShigh8.1Exploit
A weakness was found in postgresql-jdbc before version 42.2.5. It was possible to provide an SSL Factory and not check the host name if a host name verifier was not provided to the…
CVE-2026-22747UShigh8.1Exploit
Vulnerability in Spring Spring Security. SubjectX500PrincipalExtractor does not correctly handle certain malformed X.509 certificate CN values, which can lead to reading the wrong…
CVE-2024-32868UShigh8.1Exploit
ZITADEL provides users the possibility to use Time-based One-Time-Password (TOTP) and One-Time-Password (OTP) through SMS and Email. While ZITADEL already gives administrators the…
CVE-2020-1887UScritical9.1—
Incorrect validation of the TLS SNI hostname in osquery versions after 2.9.0 and before 4.2.0 could allow an attacker to MITM osquery traffic in the absence of a configured root ch…
CVE-2026-48144UScritical9.1—
Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch vulnerability in Apache Thrift c_glib bindings. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.24.0. Users are recommended to up…
CVE-2021-33695UScritical9.1—
Potentially, SAP Cloud Connector, version - 2.0 communication with the backend is accepted without sufficient validation of the certificate.
CVE-2026-35563UShigh8.5—
It was identified that the LDAP client implementation in version 2.1.7 does not verify if the server certificate matches the intended LDAP hostname. While the underlying code vali…
CVE-2024-49782UShigh8.2—
IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3 and 9.0  could allow a remote attacker to spoof mail server identity when using SSL/TLS security. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to g…
CVE-2026-42790UShigh8.1—
Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in Erlang OTP public_key (pubkey_cert and public_key modules) allows a DNS nameConstraints bypass via subject CommonName fallback in T…
CVE-2023-34143UShigh8.1—
Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch vulnerability in Hitachi Device Manager on Windows, Linux (Device Manager Server, Device Manager Agent, Host Data Collector co…
CVE-2022-41244UShigh8.1—
Jenkins View26 Test-Reporting Plugin 1.0.7 and earlier does not perform hostname validation when connecting to the configured View26 server that could be abused using a man-in-the-…
CVE-2022-41243UShigh8.1—
Jenkins SmallTest Plugin 1.0.4 and earlier does not perform hostname validation when connecting to the configured View26 server that could be abused using a man-in-the-middle attac…
CVE-2022-32153UShigh8.1—
Splunk Enterprise peers in Splunk Enterprise versions before 9.0 and Splunk Cloud Platform versions before 8.2.2203 did not validate the TLS certificates during Splunk-to-Splunk co…
CVE-2020-11050UShigh8.1—
In Java-WebSocket less than or equal to 1.4.1, there is an Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch where WebSocketClient does not perform SSL hostname validation. Thi…
CVE-2022-22787UShigh7.5—
The Zoom Client for Meetings (for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows) before version 5.10.0 fails to properly validate the hostname during a server switch request. This issue…
CVE-2021-44549UShigh7.4—
Apache Sling Commons Messaging Mail provides a simple layer on top of JavaMail/Jakarta Mail for OSGi to send mails via SMTPS. To reduce the risk of "man in the middle" attacks addi…
CVE-2019-13050UShigh7.5—
Interaction between the sks-keyserver code through 1.2.0 of the SKS keyserver network, and GnuPG through 2.2.16, makes it risky to have a GnuPG keyserver configuration line referri…
CVE-2026-62243UShigh7.5—
Netty (io.netty:netty-handler) versions from 4.2.0.Final through 4.2.16.Final and versions through 4.1.136.Final disable TLS hostname verification on the SslProvider.OPENSSL client…
CVE-2026-48145UShigh7.5—
Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch vulnerability in Apache Thrift C++ bindings. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.24.0. Users are recommended to upgra…
CVE-2026-54275UShigh7.5—
AIOHTTP is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. Prior to 3.14.1, the server_hostname TLS SNI check can be bypassed when an existing connection is re…
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