CVE-2020-13614

Publication date 26 May 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

An issue was discovered in ssl.c in Axel before 2.17.8. The TLS implementation lacks hostname verification.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
axel	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Not affected
	23.04 lunar	Not affected
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2.17.5-1ubuntu1+esm1
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.16.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

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Notes

sbeattie

if addressing this issue, may also want to add wildcard hostname support as described in axel github issue 271

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
axel	Upstream: 961cf54

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.9 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4872-1
Axel vulnerability
15 March 2021