From a21de3d45ec2aebf899712cbd0e44eba9611d2af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 19:28:30 +0200
Subject: Issue #22638: SSLv3 is now disabled throughout the standard library.
 It can still be enabled by instantiating a SSLContext manually.

---
 Lib/ssl.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

(limited to 'Lib/ssl.py')

diff --git a/Lib/ssl.py b/Lib/ssl.py
index b6e6f1695d..2b81b790d8 100644
--- a/Lib/ssl.py
+++ b/Lib/ssl.py
@@ -458,6 +458,9 @@ def _create_unverified_context(protocol=PROTOCOL_SSLv23, *, cert_reqs=None,
     context = SSLContext(protocol)
     # SSLv2 considered harmful.
     context.options |= OP_NO_SSLv2
+    # SSLv3 has problematic security and is only required for really old
+    # clients such as IE6 on Windows XP
+    context.options |= OP_NO_SSLv3
 
     if cert_reqs is not None:
         context.verify_mode = cert_reqs
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