suse · CVE-2015-1855

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:28:05 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 18:23:48 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2015-1855 severity moderate: SUSE including 65 source package names (4.0.0:libruby2_1-2_1-2.1.9-15.1, 4.0.0:ruby2.1-2.1.9-15.1, …), 499 product×package rows across 85 product lines (Container caasp/v4/velum, HPE Helion OpenStack 8, … (85 product lines)): Known Not Affected 349, Fixed 150.

Description:

verify_certificate_identity in the OpenSSL extension in Ruby before 2.0.0 patchlevel 645, 2.1.x before 2.1.6, and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 does not properly validate hostnames, which allows remote attackers to spoof servers via vectors related to (1) multiple wildcards, (1) wildcards in IDNA names, (3) case sensitivity, and (4) non-ASCII characters.

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