CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0970

7.5 HIGH Published 2002-09-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-09-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The SSL capability for Konqueror in KDE 3.0.2 and earlier does not verify the Basic Constraints for an intermediate CA-signed certificate, which allows remote attackers to spoof the certificates of trusted sites via a man-in-the-middle attack.

Affected configurations

• kde konqueror 2.2.2 • kde konqueror 3.0 • kde konqueror 3.0.1 • kde konqueror 3.0.2 • kde kde 2.2.2 • kde kde 3.0 • kde kde 3.0.1 • kde kde 3.0.2

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-296 Improper Following of a Certificate's Chain of Trust weakness
  • CWE-358 Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard weakness

References