CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-6592
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-12-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
Apple Safari 2, when a user accepts an SSL server certificate on the basis of the CN domain name in the DN field, regards 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.
Affected configurations
• apple safari 2
References
- http://nils.toedtmann.net/pub/subjectAltName.txt nils.toedtmann.net
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3498 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483929/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483937/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://nils.toedtmann.net/pub/subjectAltName.txt nils.toedtmann.net
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3498 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483929/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483937/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com