Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in ssl.c in Axel before 2.17.8. The TLS implementation lacks hostname verification.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-13614
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in ssl.c in Axel before 2.17.8. The TLS implementation lacks hostname verification.
osv:CVE-2020-13614
Complete source record
{
"id": "c34cf855345f7eff1f863c4d54f6aed334bca55fcfc9ff7cf84140b4c1efddef",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-13614",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2020-13614",
"summary": "An issue was discovered in ssl.c in Axel before 2.17.8. The TLS implementation lacks hostname verification.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-13614",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2020-13614",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2020-13614"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"repo": "https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel",
"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "0b22b5a23fa0e568803f0a625e51eca4b662c4fc"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:axel_project:axel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "2.17.8"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
},
{
"range": [
{
"fixed": "0b22b5a23fa0e568803f0a625e51eca4b662c4fc"
}
],
"source": "REFERENCES_TAG",
"original_tag": "v2.17.8"
}
]
}
}
],
"versions": [
"v2.17.7",
"v2.17.6",
"v2.17.5",
"v2.17.4",
"v2.17.3",
"v2.17.2",
"v2.17.1",
"v2.17",
"v2.16.1",
"v2.16",
"v2.15",
"v2.14.1",
"v2.14",
"v2.13.1",
"v2.13",
"v2.12",
"v2.11",
"v2.10",
"v2.7",
"v2.6",
"v2.5"
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-13614.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:48.151148491Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LPZUQSDGV5XDBJGHBWBHWJIBE47Q4QIB/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S3ECAKIZA2TGBYLUQTLGRMXUFIOGRHG3/",
"https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/releases/tag/v2.17.8",
"https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/issues/262"
],
"provider_metadata": {
"unresolved_ranges": [
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "33"
},
{
"last_affected": "33"
},
{
"introduced": "34"
},
{
"last_affected": "34"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
},
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:a:opensuse:backports_sle:15.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "opensuse:backports_sle",
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "15.0-sp1"
},
{
"last_affected": "15.0-sp1"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
},
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"vendor_product": "opensuse:leap",
"extracted_events": [
{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "15.1"
},
{
"last_affected": "15.1"
}
],
"source": "CPE_STRING"
}
]
}
]
}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2020-13614",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 382963,
"published_at": "2020-05-26T23:15:10.46+00:00"
}