CVE-2006-5462

Severity

64%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

81%

Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) library before 3.11.3, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.8, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.6, when using an RSA key with exponent 3, does not properly handle extra data in a signature, which allows remote attackers to forge signatures for SSL/TLS and email certificates. NOTE: this identifier is for unpatched product versions that were originally intended to be addressed by CVE-2006-4340.

Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) library before 3.11.3, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.8, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.6, when using an RSA key with exponent 3, does not properly handle extra data in a signature, which allows remote attackers to forge signatures for SSL/TLS and email certificates. NOTE: this identifier is for unpatched product versions that were originally intended to be addressed by CVE-2006-4340.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

Mozilla

First reported 18 years ago

2006-11-08 21:07:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:31:00

Affected Software

Mozilla Firefox 1.5

1.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1

1.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 2

1.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.1

1.5.0.1

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.2

1.5.0.2

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3

1.5.0.3

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4

1.5.0.4

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5

1.5.0.5

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.6

1.5.0.6

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7

1.5.0.7

Mozilla Network Security Services 3.11.3

3.11.3

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0

1.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0 beta

1.0

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.1

1.0.1

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.2

1.0.2

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.3

1.0.3

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.4

1.0.4

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0.5

1.0.5

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5

1.5

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 Beta 2

1.5

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.2

1.5.0.2

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.4

1.5.0.4

Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.7

1.5.0.7

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