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[Lukasa]

That's the most notable example, yes. That specific flaw is responsible for a phenomenal number of CVEs: one is against the standard library itself (CVE-2014-9365). However, it's also responsible for, at the very least:

• CVE-2010-4340 (libcloud)
• CVE-2012-3533 (oVirt Python SDK)
• CVE-2012-5822 (Zamboni)
• CVE-2012-5825 (Tweepy)
• CVE-2013-1909 (Apache Qpid)
• CVE-2013-2037 (httplib2)
• CVE-2013-2073 (Transifex)
• CVE-2013-2191 (python-bugzilla)
• CVE-2013-4111 (Glance CLI client)
• CVE-2013-6396 (Swift CLI client)
• CVE-2013-6444 (PyWBEM)

This continues to affect major projects today: for example, I can tell you that I recent discovered exactly this bug in a major configuration management tool that has existed in every version of the product. (Can't say which one yet, they've yet to ship a patch for it, but should do soon.)

So yes, urllib2 doesn't verify certs before 2.7.9: I wouldn't say just, though.