PT-2012-6136 · Cerulean Studios · Trillian

Published 2012-11-04 · Updated 2022-02-07 · CVE-2012-5824

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Trillian version 5.1.0.19

Description The issue arises from the failure to verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate. This allows attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

Recommendations For Trillian version 5.1.0.19, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Improper Certificate Validation

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-295

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5824

Affected Products

Trillian

References · 5

• 🔥 http://cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5824 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/51190 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79915 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/56454 · Note