PT-2019-6714 · Nginx · Nginx

Daniel Kahn Gillmor + 1 · Published 2019-11-19 · Updated 2021-11-10 · CVE-2011-4968

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions nginx (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns the nginx http proxy module, which does not verify the peer identity of the HTTPS origin server. This lack of verification could facilitate a man-in-the-middle attack (MITM).

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4968

Affected Products

Nginx

References · 15

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4968 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4968 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/03/8 · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-4968 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4968 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2011-4968 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-4968 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4968 · Patch
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-4968 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-4968 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80952 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4968 · Note
• http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2015-February/006484.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/57139 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4968 · Note