ID CVE-2004-0758
Summary Mozilla 1.5 through 1.7 allows a CA certificate to be imported even when their DN is the same as that of the built-in CA root certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service to SSL pages because the malicious certificate is treated as invalid.
References
Vulnerable Configurations
  • cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:mozilla:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVSS
Base: 5.0 (as of 11-10-2017 - 01:29)
Impact:
Exploitability:
CWE NVD-CWE-Other
CAPEC
Access
VectorComplexityAuthentication
NETWORK LOW NONE
Impact
ConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
NONE NONE PARTIAL
cvss-vector via4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
oval via4
  • accepted 2013-04-29T04:04:26.849-04:00
    class vulnerability
    contributors
    • name Aharon Chernin
      organization SCAP.com, LLC
    • name Dragos Prisaca
      organization G2, Inc.
    definition_extensions
    • comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
      oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11782
    • comment CentOS Linux 3.x
      oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16651
    description Mozilla 1.5 through 1.7 allows a CA certificate to be imported even when their DN is the same as that of the built-in CA root certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service to SSL pages because the malicious certificate is treated as invalid.
    family unix
    id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10304
    status accepted
    submitted 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00
    title Mozilla 1.5 through 1.7 allows a CA certificate to be imported even when their DN is the same as that of the built-in CA root certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service to SSL pages because the malicious certificate is treated as invalid.
    version 29
  • accepted 2005-03-09T07:56:00.000-04:00
    class vulnerability
    contributors
    name Brian Soby
    organization The MITRE Corporation
    description Mozilla 1.5 through 1.7 allows a CA certificate to be imported even when their DN is the same as that of the built-in CA root certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service to SSL pages because the malicious certificate is treated as invalid.
    family unix
    id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:3134
    status accepted
    submitted 2005-01-19T12:00:00.000-04:00
    title Mozilla CA Certificate DoS
    version 35
redhat via4
advisories
rhsa
id RHSA-2004:421
refmap via4
bid 15495
cert-vn VU#784278
confirm
fedora FLSA:2089
gentoo GLSA-200408-22
sco SCOSA-2005.49
suse SUSE-SA:2004:036
xf mozilla-certificate-dos(16706)
Last major update 11-10-2017 - 01:29
Published 18-08-2004 - 04:00
Last modified 11-10-2017 - 01:29
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