CVE-2020-13614

MEDIUM 5.9CVE-2020-13614 · Published 26/05/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-13614 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.9) vulnerability affecting axel (axel project), backports sle (opensuse).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.0%, higher than 80.5% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.17.8 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
axel axel_project	`< 2.17.8`	`2.17.8`
backports sle opensuse	`= 15.0`	No fix yet

An issue was discovered in ssl.c in Axel before 2.17.8. The TLS implementation lacks hostname verification.

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