CVE-2010-3170

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2010-07-14
IAVA:
2011-A-0160
Bugzilla:
630047: CVE-2010-3170 firefox/nss: doesn't handle IP-based wildcards in X509 certificates safely

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2010-3170 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (nss) RHSA-2010:0782 2010-10-19
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (seamonkey) RHSA-2010:0781 2010-10-19
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (seamonkey) RHSA-2010:0781 2010-10-19
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (nss) RHSA-2010:0782 2010-10-19
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (nss) RHSA-2010:0862 2010-11-10

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