CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-5462

6.4 MEDIUM Published 2006-11-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-11-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Description

Mozilla Network Security Service (NSS) library before 3.11.3, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 1.5.0.8, Thunderbird before 1.5.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.6, when using an RSA key with exponent 3, does not properly handle extra data in a signature, which allows remote attackers to forge signatures for SSL/TLS and email certificates. NOTE: this identifier is for unpatched product versions that were originally intended to be addressed by CVE-2006-4340.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox 1.5 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.1 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.2 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.3 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.4 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.5 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.6 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.7 • mozilla network security services 3.11.3 • mozilla seamonkey 1.0 • mozilla seamonkey 1.0.1 • mozilla seamonkey 1.0.2 • mozilla seamonkey 1.0.3 • mozilla seamonkey 1.0.4 • mozilla seamonkey 1.0.5 • mozilla thunderbird 1.5 • mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.1 • mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.2 • mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.3 • mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.4 • mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.6 • mozilla thunderbird 1.5.0.7

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-349 Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data weakness

References