CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-3490

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2009-09-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-09-30
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

GNU Wget before 1.12 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle remote 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

• gnu wget (<= 1.11.4) • gnu wget 1.5.3 • gnu wget 1.6 • gnu wget 1.7 • gnu wget 1.7.1 • gnu wget 1.8 • gnu wget 1.8.1 • gnu wget 1.9 • gnu wget 1.9.1 • gnu wget 1.10 • gnu wget 1.10.1 • gnu wget 1.10.2 • gnu wget 1.11 • gnu wget 1.11.1 • gnu wget 1.11.2 • gnu wget 1.11.3

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References