CVE-2007-6592

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 28, 2007
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Dec 28, 2007

Description

Apple Safari 2, when a user accepts an SSL server certificate on the basis of the CN domain name in the DN field, regards the certificate as also accepted for all domain names in subjectAltName:dNSName fields, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into accepting an invalid certificate for a spoofed web site.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

3498third-party-advisory
20071118 Re: Certificate spoofing issue with Mozilla, Konqueror, Safari 2mailing-list
20071118 Certificate spoofing issue with Mozilla, Konqueror, Safari 2mailing-list
http://nils.toedtmann.net/pub/subjectAltName.txt

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