CVE-2020-13614: Axel Project Axel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Axel Project Axel: before 2.17.8 (fixed in 2.17.8)
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 33 only; version 34 only
• Opensuse Backports Sle: version 15.0 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only

Published 2020-05-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.