Certificate Spoofing

vt-ldap is vulnerable to certificate spoofing. The library does not properly parse and verify the hostname in certificates, allowing an attacker to spoof SSL Servers by spoofing a certificate in conjunction with a man-in-the-middle MitM attack...

CVE-2014-3607

CVE-2014-3607 affects Ldaptive (formerly vt-ldap) and its DefaultHostnameVerifier, which fails to ensure the server hostname matches a domain name in the X.509 certificate’s CN. This allows remote attackers to perform a MITM spoofing attack by using an arbitrary valid certificate. The issue is ob...