CVE-2009-0047

critical

Description

Gale 0.99 and earlier does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature for DSA and ECDSA keys, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0046

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499827/100/0/threaded

http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-016.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-01-07

Updated: 2018-10-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: Critical