Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 through 11 does not prevent use of wildcard EV SSL certificates, which might allow remote attackers to spoof a trust level by leveraging improper issuance of a wildcard certificate by a recognized Certification Authority, aka "Extended Validation (EV) Certificate Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability."
Published: 2014-07-08
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: 7.7% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-2810 Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 through 11 does not prevent use of wildcard EV SSL certificates, which might allow remote attackers to spoof a trust level by leveraging improper issuance of a wildcard certificate by a recognized Certification Authority, aka "Extended Validation (EV) Certificate Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability."
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Microsoft Internet Explorer
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T10:21:36.158Z

Reserved: 2014-04-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-2783

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Status : Modified

Published: 2014-07-08T22:55:06.567

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

Link: CVE-2014-2783

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