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CVE-2023-52892

Status: AnalyzedHigh (7.5)—

In phpseclib before 1.0.22, 2.x before 2.0.46, and 3.x before 3.0.33, some characters in Subject Alternative Name fields in TLS certificates are incorrectly allowed to have a special meaning in regular expressions (such as a + wildcard), leading to name confusion in X.509 certificate host verification.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Phpseclib — Phpseclib

CWEs

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