🛡️ CVE-2012-5825 — tweepy

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-20 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Tweepy does not verify SSL Certificate

Tweepy does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate, related to use of the Python httplib library.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2012-5825 is classified as CWE-20: Improper Input Validation. The application accepts input without checking that it has the expected form, so malformed values reach code that assumes they are well formed.

Affected software

CVE-2012-5825 is recorded against 1 package.

  • tweepy (fixed in 3.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 18 November 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
www.cs.utexas.edu (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-20
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-11-18
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
tweepy — 3.0

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