VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2020-13614
An issue was discovered in ssl.c in Axel before 2.17.8.
MEDIUM 5.9EPSS 1.98%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.98%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
An issue was discovered in ssl.c in Axel before 2.17.8. The TLS implementation lacks hostname verification.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 1.98% probability · 80th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-295
- Affected
- axel project/axel · fedoraproject/fedora · opensuse/backports sle · opensuse/leap
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 2.0% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00006.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00010.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/issues/262Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/releases/tag/v2.17.8Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- 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/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00006.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00010.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/issues/262Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/releases/tag/v2.17.8Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- 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/
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.