CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2510
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-10-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
Description
The CryptoAPI component in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Windows 7, as used by Internet Explorer and other applications, 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, aka "Null Truncation in X.509 Common Name Vulnerability," a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows 2000
• microsoft windows 2003 server
• microsoft windows 7
• microsoft windows server 2008
• microsoft windows vista
• microsoft windows xp
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/073009-more-holes-found-in-webs.html www.networkworld.com
- http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/091709-microsoft-ie-security-hole.html www.networkworld.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36475 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/kaminsky/ www.wired.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-056 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5842 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/073009-more-holes-found-in-webs.html www.networkworld.com
- http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/091709-microsoft-ie-security-hole.html www.networkworld.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36475 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/kaminsky/ www.wired.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-056 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5842 oval.cisecurity.org