High
Security advisory
The urllib3 library before 1.24.2 for Python mishandles certain cases where the desired set of CA certificates is different from the OS store of CA certificates, which results in SSL connections succeeding in situations where a verification failure is the correct outcome. This is related to use of the ssl_context, ca_certs, or ca_certs_dir argument.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-11324
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The urllib3 library before 1.24.2 for Python mishandles certain cases where the desired set of CA certificates is different from the OS store of CA certificates, which results in SSL connections succeeding in situations where a verification failure is the correct outcome. This is related to use of the ssl_context, ca_certs, or ca_certs_dir argument.
osv:CVE-2019-11324
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-11324",
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"summary": "The urllib3 library before 1.24.2 for Python mishandles certain cases where the desired set of CA certificates is different from the OS store of CA certificates, which results in SSL connections succeeding in situations where a verification failure is the correct outcome. This is related to use of the ssl_context, ca_certs, or ca_certs_dir argument.",
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:52:18.658696793Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00015.html",
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00012.html",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NKGPJLVLVYCL4L4B4G5TIOTVK4BKPG72/",
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XOSA2NT4DUQDBEIWE6O7KKD24XND7TE2/",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3335",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3590",
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3990-1/",
"https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/compare/a6ec68a...1efadf4"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 383541,
"published_at": "2019-04-18T21:29:00.883+00:00"
}