CVE detail
CVE-2009-3024 — CVE-2009-3024
Published 2009-08-31 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor io-socket-ssl · Product io-socket-ssl · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0100
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
59.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
The verify_hostname_of_cert function in the certificate checking feature in IO-Socket-SSL (IO::Socket::SSL) 1.14 through 1.25 only matches the prefix of a hostname when no wildcard is used, which allows remote attackers to bypass the hostname check for a certificate.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References