CVE-2002-0862

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

The (1) CertGetCertificateChain, (2) CertVerifyCertificateChainPolicy, and (3) WinVerifyTrust APIs within the CryptoAPI for Microsoft products including Microsoft Windows 98 through XP, Office for Mac, Internet Explorer for Mac, and Outlook Express for Mac, do not properly verify the Basic Constraints of intermediate CA-signed X.509 certificates, which allows remote attackers to spoof the certificates of trusted sites via a man-in-the-middle attack for SSL sessions, as originally reported for Internet Explorer and IIS.

The (1) CertGetCertificateChain, (2) CertVerifyCertificateChainPolicy, and (3) WinVerifyTrust APIs within the CryptoAPI for Microsoft products including Microsoft Windows 98 through XP, Office for Mac, Internet Explorer for Mac, and Outlook Express for Mac, do not properly verify the Basic Constraints of intermediate CA-signed X.509 certificates, which allows remote attackers to spoof the certificates of trusted sites via a man-in-the-middle attack for SSL sessions, as originally reported for Internet Explorer and IIS.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 22 years ago

2002-10-04 04:00:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-04-30 14:27:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0

5.0

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1

5.0.1

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 SP1

5.0.1

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 SP2

5.0.1

Microsoft ie 5.5

5.5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 SP1

5.5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2

5.5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

6.0

Microsoft Internet Explorer Macintosh 5.0

5.0

Microsoft Internet Explorer Macintosh 5.1

5.1

Microsoft Internet Explorer Macintosh 5.1.1

5.1.1

Microsoft IIS 5.0

5.0

Microsoft office_macos 2001 sr1

2001

Microsoft outlook_express 5.0

5.0

Microsoft Windows 2000

Microsoft windows 2000_sp1

Microsoft windows 2000_sp2

Microsoft windows 2000_sp3

Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services

Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services Service Pack 1

Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services Service Pack 2

Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services Service Pack 3

Microsoft windows 98_gold

Microsoft windows 98_se

Microsoft Windows ME

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

4.0

Microsoft Windows 4.0 sp1

4.0

Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP1

4.0

Microsoft Windows 4.0 sp2

4.0

Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP2

4.0

Microsoft Windows 4.0 sp3

4.0

Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP3

4.0

Microsoft Windows 4.0 sp4

4.0

Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP4

4.0

Microsoft Windows 4.0 sp5

4.0

Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP5

4.0

Microsoft Windows 4.0 sp6

4.0

Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP6

4.0

Microsoft Windows 4.0 sp6a

4.0

Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP6a

4.0

Microsoft windows xp_gold

Microsoft Windows XP Professional Gold

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