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erlang — security advisory
An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP before 23.2.2. The ssl application 10.2 accepts and trusts an invalid X.509 certificate chain to a trusted root Certification Authority.
- Products
- erlang
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1:23.2.2+dfsg-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-35733
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 12:47 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP before 23.2.2. The ssl application 10.2 accepts and trusts an invalid X.509 certificate chain to a trusted root Certification Authority.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-35733
erlang
Fixed versions: 1:23.2.2+dfsg-1
erlang
Fixed versions: 1:23.2.2+dfsg-1
erlang
Fixed versions: 1:23.2.2+dfsg-1
Complete source record
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