High
Security advisory
In Apache::Session::Browseable before 1.3.6, validity of the X.509 certificate is not checked by default when connecting to remote LDAP backends, because the default configuration of the Net::LDAPS module for Perl is used. NOTE: this can, for example, be fixed in conjunction with the CVE-2020-16093 fix.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-36659
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:29 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Apache::Session::Browseable before 1.3.6, validity of the X.509 certificate is not checked by default when connecting to remote LDAP backends, because the default configuration of the Net::LDAPS module for Perl is used. NOTE: this can, for example, be fixed in conjunction with the CVE-2020-16093 fix.
osv:CVE-2020-36659
Complete source record
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"references": [
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