CVE-2010-3170

CVE Details

Release Date:

2010-10-21

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, Thunderbird before 3.0.9 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9 recognize a wildcard IP address in the subject's Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority.

See more information about CVE-2010-3170 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.3	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2010-0781	2010-10-20
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (firefox)	ELSA-2010-0782	2010-10-20
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (nss)	ELSA-2010-0782	2010-10-20
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (seamonkey)	ELSA-2010-0781	2010-10-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2010-0782	2010-10-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (nss)	ELSA-2010-0782	2010-10-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2010-0782	2010-10-20
Oracle Linux version 6 (nss)	ELSA-2010-0862	2011-02-11
Oracle Linux version 6 (nss-softokn)	ELSA-2010-0862	2011-02-11
Oracle Linux version 6 (nss-util)	ELSA-2010-0862	2011-02-11

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