CVE-2004-0758

Description

Mozilla 1.5 through 1.7 allows a CA certificate to be imported even when their DN is the same as that of the built-in CA root certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service to SSL pages because the malicious certificate is treated as invalid.

5.0

CVSS

Severity: Medium

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 15.84% Top 10%

Vendor Advisory sco.com Vendor Advisory novell.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory marc.info Vendor Advisory mozilla.org

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt	vendor advisory
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html	vendor advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-421.html	vendor advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-22.xml	vendor advisory
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109900315219363&w=2	vendor advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3134	vdb entry signature
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495	vdb entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16706	vdb entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10304	vdb entry signature
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/784278	third party advisory us government resource
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249004	patch vendor advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127186

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2004-0758?: CVE-2004-0758 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2004-0758?: To fix CVE-2004-0758, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2004-0758 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2004-0758 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~16% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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