# CVE-2020-35733: An issue was discovered in Erlang/OTP before 23.2.2.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2021-01-15 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://www.erlang.org/news
- https://www.erlang.org/downloads
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases
- https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2021-January/100357.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E4CXZWUOZELT7A5ZN6DJRQHX7L35V4PW/

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