National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2408
Original release date:07/30/2009
Last revised:08/26/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.12.3, Firefox before 3.0.13, Thunderbird before 2.0.0.23, and SeaMonkey before 1.1.18 do not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority. NOTE: this was originally reported for Firefox before 3.5.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510251
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/kaminsky/
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-2085
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-810-2
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-810-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1022632
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:1207
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2009/mfsa2009-42.html
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:197
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36157
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36139
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36125
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36088
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 56723
External Source: MISC
Name: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7003