CVE-2002-1183

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Microsoft Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 do not properly verify the Basic Constraints of digital certificates, allowing remote attackers to execute code, aka "New Variant of Certificate Validation Flaw Could Enable Identity Spoofing" (CAN-2002-0862).

Microsoft Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 do not properly verify the Basic Constraints of digital certificates, allowing remote attackers to execute code, aka "New Variant of Certificate Validation Flaw Could Enable Identity Spoofing" (CAN-2002-0862).

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

2002-12-11 05:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:32:00

Affected Software

Microsoft windows 98_gold

Microsoft windows 98_se

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

4.0

References

5410

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

MS02-050

ssl-ca-certificate-spoofing(9776)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1059

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1455

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2108

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