Description
Nintendo Wii U OS 5.5.5 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to forge SSL certificates as though they came from a Root CA, because there is a secondary verification mechanism that only checks whether a CA is known and ignores the CA details and signature (and because * is accepted as a Common Name).
Published: 2024-05-26
Score: 7.4 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
AI Analysis

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-34810 Nintendo Wii U OS 5.5.5 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to forge SSL certificates as though they came from a Root CA, because there is a secondary verification mechanism that only checks whether a CA is known and ignores the CA details and signature (and because * is accepted as a Common Name).
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00078}

 epss

{'score': 0.00102}

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Nintendo
Nintendo wii U
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:nintendo:wii_u:5.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Nintendo
Nintendo wii U
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Subscriptions

Nintendo Wii U
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-02-13T15:53:25.411Z

Reserved: 2024-05-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-34454

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T02:51:11.532Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2024-05-26T22:15:08.650

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2024-34454

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses