PT-2009-6006 · Openssl+1 · Openssl+1

Tomas Hoger · Published 2009-10-23 · Updated 2019-11-07 · CVE-2009-3766

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions mutt versions 1.5.16 through 1.5.18

Description The issue arises from a failure to verify the domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate when OpenSSL is used. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

Recommendations For mutt versions 1.5.16 through 1.5.18, update to version 1.5.19 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-310

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-3766

Affected Products

Openssl

Mutt

References · 4

• http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3087 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3766 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/26/1 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125198917018936&w=2 · Note