# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2021-40828"
idYear: 2021
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2021-11-22T23:41:16.000Z"
updatedAt: "2024-08-04T02:51:06.830Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:32.228Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-40828"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2021-40828.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-40828"
title: "TLS hostname validation issues within AWS IoT Device SDKs on Windows"
summary: "Connections initialized by the AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Java (versions prior to 1.3.3), Python (versions prior to 1.5.18), C++ (versions prior to 1.12.7) and Node.js (versions prior to 1.5.1) did not verify server certificate hostname during TLS handshake when overriding Certificate Authorities (CA) in their trust stores on Windows. This issue has been addressed in aws-c-io submodule versions 0.9.13 onward. This issue affects: Amazon Web Services AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Java versions prior to 1.3.3 on Microsoft Windows. Amazon Web Services AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Python versions prior to 1.5.18 on Microsoft Windows. Amazon Web Services AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for C++ versions prior to 1.12.7 on Microsoft Windows. Amazon Web Services AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Node.js versions prior to 1.5.3 on Microsoft Windows."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"1.3.3"}],"vendor":"Amazon Web Services","product":"AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Java","platforms":["Microsoft Windows"]},{"versions":[{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"1.5.18"}],"vendor":"Amazon Web Services","product":"AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Python","platforms":["Microsoft Windows"]},{"versions":[{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"1.12.7"}],"vendor":"Amazon Web Services","product":"AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for C++","platforms":["Microsoft Windows"]},{"versions":[{"version":"unspecified","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"1.5.3"}],"vendor":"Amazon Web Services","product":"AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Node.js","platforms":["Microsoft Windows"]},{"versions":[{"version":"0.9.12","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Amazon Web Services","product":"AWS-C-IO","platforms":["Microsoft Windows"]}]

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