CVE-2008-2809 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-2809 at MITRE

Description

Mozilla 1.9 M8 and earlier, Mozilla Firefox 2 before 2.0.0.15, SeaMonkey 1.1.5 and other versions before 1.1.10, Netscape 9.0, and other Mozilla-based web browsers, when a user accepts an SSL server certificate on the basis of the CN domain name in the DN field, regard the certificate as also accepted for all domain names in subjectAltName:dNSName fields, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into accepting an invalid certificate for a spoofed web site.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4
Vector	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	High
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 342689 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 400757 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2008:034, published Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:02:14 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:20 2025