CVE-2004-0765

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

The cert_TestHostName function in Mozilla before 1.7, Firefox before 0.9, and Thunderbird before 0.7, only checks the hostname portion of a certificate when the hostname portion of the URI is not a fully qualified domain name (FQDN), which allows remote attackers to spoof trusted certificates.

The cert_TestHostName function in Mozilla before 1.7, Firefox before 0.9, and Thunderbird before 0.7, only checks the hostname portion of a certificate when the hostname portion of the URI is not a fully qualified domain name (FQDN), which allows remote attackers to spoof trusted certificates.

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

Mozilla

First reported 20 years ago

2004-08-18 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Mozilla

Mozilla Thunderbird

References

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234058

Patch, Vendor Advisory

FLSA:2089

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html#mozilla1.7

SUSE-SA:2004:036

Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2004:421

Patch, Vendor Advisory

mozilla-certtesthostname-certificate-spoof(16868)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11162

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