CVE-2009-3455

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Apple Safari, possibly before 4.0.3, on Mac OS X does 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, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.

Apple Safari, possibly before 4.0.3, on Mac OS X does 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, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.

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

Apple Safari

First reported 15 years ago

2009-09-29 18:00:00

Last updated 15 years ago

2009-09-30 04:00:00

Affected Software

Apple Safari 1.0b1 for Mac OS X

1.0b1

Apple Safari 2.0.4 for Mac OS X

2.0.4

Apple Safari 3.0.0 for Mac OS X

3.0.0

Apple Safari 3.0.1 for Mac OS X

3.0.1

Apple Safari 3.0.3 for Mac OS X

3.0.3

Apple Safari 3.0.4 for Mac OS X

3.0.4

Apple Safari 3.1.0 for Mac OS X

3.1.0

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