CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2417
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-08-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
Description
lib/ssluse.c in cURL and libcurl 7.4 through 7.19.5, when OpenSSL is used, does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.
Affected configurations
• curl libcurl 7.4
• curl libcurl 7.4.1
• curl libcurl 7.4.2
• curl libcurl 7.5
• curl libcurl 7.5.1
• curl libcurl 7.5.2
• curl libcurl 7.6
• curl libcurl 7.6.1
• curl libcurl 7.7
• curl libcurl 7.7.1
• curl libcurl 7.7.2
• curl libcurl 7.7.3
• curl libcurl 7.8
• curl libcurl 7.8.1
• curl libcurl 7.9
• curl libcurl 7.9.1
• curl libcurl 7.9.2
• curl libcurl 7.9.3
• curl libcurl 7.9.5
• curl libcurl 7.9.6
• curl libcurl 7.9.7
• curl libcurl 7.9.8
• curl libcurl 7.10
• curl libcurl 7.10.1
• curl libcurl 7.10.2
• curl libcurl 7.10.3
• curl libcurl 7.10.4
• curl libcurl 7.10.5
• curl libcurl 7.10.6
• curl libcurl 7.10.7
• curl libcurl 7.10.8
• curl libcurl 7.11.0
• curl libcurl 7.11.1
• curl libcurl 7.11.2
• curl libcurl 7.12
• curl libcurl 7.12.0
• curl libcurl 7.12.1
• curl libcurl 7.12.2
• curl libcurl 7.12.3
• curl libcurl 7.13
• curl libcurl 7.13.1
• curl libcurl 7.13.2
• curl libcurl 7.14
• curl libcurl 7.14.1
• curl libcurl 7.15
• curl libcurl 7.15.1
• curl libcurl 7.15.2
• curl libcurl 7.15.3
• curl libcurl 7.16.3
• curl libcurl 7.17.0
• curl libcurl 7.17.1
• curl libcurl 7.18.0
• curl libcurl 7.18.1
• curl libcurl 7.18.2
• curl libcurl 7.19.0
• curl libcurl 7.19.1
• curl libcurl 7.19.2
• curl libcurl 7.19.3
• curl libcurl 7.19.4
• curl libcurl 7.19.5
… and 14 more
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.10.6-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.11.0-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.12.1-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.15.1-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.15.5-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.16.4-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.18.1-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.19.0-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.19.5-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch
- http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20090812.txt Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36238 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36475 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37471 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45047 secunia.com
- http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/secadv/secadv_20090817.txt shibboleth.internet2.edu
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 support.apple.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0124 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506055/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36032 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1158-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html www.vmware.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2263 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52405 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10114 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8542 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.10.6-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.11.0-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.12.1-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.15.1-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.15.5-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.16.4-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.18.1-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.19.0-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch
- http://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2009-2417/curl-7.19.5-CVE-2009-2417.patch Patch
- http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20090812.txt Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36238 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36475 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37471 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45047 secunia.com
- http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/secadv/secadv_20090817.txt shibboleth.internet2.edu
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 support.apple.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0124 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/506055/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36032 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1158-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html www.vmware.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2263 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52405 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10114 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8542 oval.cisecurity.org