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.
Published: 2010-10-21
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 1.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2123-1 New NSS packages fix cryptographic weaknesses
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-3170 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1007-1 NSS vulnerabilities
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Mozilla Firefox Seamonkey Thunderbird
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T03:03:17.182Z

Reserved: 2010-08-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-3170

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Status : Modified

Published: 2010-10-21T19:00:02.503

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-3170

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2010-07-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-3170 - Bugzilla

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