CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-3323

7.6 HIGH Published 2008-07-28 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-07-28
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.6 HIGH — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

setup.exe before 2.573.2.3 in Cygwin does not properly verify the authenticity of packages, which allows remote Cygwin mirror servers or man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code via a package list containing the MD5 checksum of a Trojan horse package.

Affected configurations

• redhat cygwin (<= 1.7)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References