Description
The cert_TestHostName function in lib/certdb/certdb.c in the certificate-checking implementation in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.16 accepts a wildcard character that is embedded in an internationalized domain name's U-label, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a crafted certificate.
Published: 2014-03-25
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-23-1 nss security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2994-1 nss security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-1568 The cert_TestHostName function in lib/certdb/certdb.c in the certificate-checking implementation in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.16 accepts a wildcard character that is embedded in an internationalized domain name's U-label, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a crafted certificate.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2159-1 NSS vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2185-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
References
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http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10761 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-05/msg00006.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-05/msg00015.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00010.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00033.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/59866 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/60621 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/60794 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2994 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-45.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2015-1972971.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2014-1972956.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpuoct2014-1972960.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66356 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2159-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2185-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903885 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079851 cve-icon cve-icon
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/NSS/NSS_3.16_release_notes cve-icon cve-icon
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nss/rev/709d4e597979 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-1492 cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-1492 cve-icon
History

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Mozilla Network Security Services
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T09:42:36.122Z

Reserved: 2014-01-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-1492

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Status : Modified

Published: 2014-03-25T13:25:38.493

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-1492

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Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-1492 - Bugzilla

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