CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3249
5.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-07-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Description
The client in Lenovo System Update before 3.14 does not properly validate the certificate when establishing an SSL connection, which allows remote attackers to install arbitrary packages via an SSL certificate whose X.509 headers match a public certificate used by IBM.
Affected configurations
• lenovo thinkvantage system update (<= 3.13.0005)
• lenovo thinkvantage system update 3.13
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30379 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020112 securitytracker.com
- http://www.security-objectives.com/advisories/SECOBJADV-2008-01.txt www.security-objectives.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492579 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29366 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42638 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30379 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020112 securitytracker.com
- http://www.security-objectives.com/advisories/SECOBJADV-2008-01.txt www.security-objectives.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492579 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29366 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42638 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com