CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-0591

2.6 LOW Published 2009-03-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-03-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.6 LOW — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-287

Description

The CMS_verify function in OpenSSL 0.9.8h through 0.9.8j, when CMS is enabled, does not properly handle errors associated with malformed signed attributes, which allows remote attackers to repudiate a signature that originally appeared to be valid but was actually invalid.

Affected configurations

• openssl openssl 0.9.8h • openssl openssl 0.9.8i • openssl openssl 0.9.8j

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References