CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-0049
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-01-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
Belgian eID middleware (eidlib) 2.6.0 and earlier does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature for DSA and ECDSA keys, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077.
Affected configurations
• eid eidlib (<= 2.6.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34029 secunia.com
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-016.html www.ocert.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499827/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34029 secunia.com
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-016.html www.ocert.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499827/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com