CVE-2014-3230

MEDIUM 5.9CVE-2014-3230 · Published 28/01/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-3230 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.9) vulnerability affecting (lwp).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.3%, higher than 71.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
lwp	`≥ 6.04, ≤ 6.06`	No fix yet

Description

The libwww-perl LWP::Protocol::https module 6.04 through 6.06 for Perl, when using IO::Socket::SSL as the SSL socket class, allows attackers to disable server certificate validation via the (1) HTTPS_CA_DIR or (2) HTTPS_CA_FILE environment variable.

References

openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/02/8 · Mailing List
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/04/1 · Mailing List
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/06/8 · Mailing List
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi · Exploit
libwww-perl/lwp-protocol-https#14 · Broken Link

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