CVE-2025-7395
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Publication date: 2025-07-18
Last updated on: 2025-07-22
Assigner: wolfSSL Inc.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| wolfssl | wolfssl | 5.8.2 |
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Exploitability
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-295 | The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. |
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
This vulnerability is a certificate verification error in wolfSSL when it is built with the WOLFSSL_SYS_CA_CERTS and WOLFSSL_APPLE_NATIVE_CERT_VALIDATION options. It causes the wolfSSL client to fail to properly verify the server certificate's domain name, allowing any certificate issued by a trusted Certificate Authority (CA) to be accepted regardless of the hostname.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
This vulnerability can allow an attacker to use a valid certificate issued by a trusted CA for a different hostname to impersonate a legitimate server. This can lead to man-in-the-middle attacks, where the attacker intercepts or alters communications without detection, compromising confidentiality and integrity of data.