National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0082

Overview

The X.509 certificate validation functionality in Mozilla Firefox 4.0.x through 4.0.1 does not properly implement single-session security exceptions, which might make it easier for user-assisted remote attackers to spoof an SSL server via an untrusted certificate that triggers potentially unwanted local caching of documents from that server.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709165

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709165

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660749

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660749

External Source: BID

Name: 48064

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48064

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14145

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14145

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110531 Re: CVE request: firefox doesn't (re)validate certificates when loading HTTPS page

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/9

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110531 CVE request: firefox doesn't (re)validate certificates when loading HTTPS page

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/4

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110531 Re: CVE request: firefox doesn't (re)validate certificates when loading HTTPS page

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/18

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110531 Re: CVE request: firefox doesn't (re)validate certificates when loading HTTPS page

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/31/14

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=627552

Hyperlink:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=627552

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14145

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14145