CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-0744

5.8 MEDIUM Published 2010-04-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-04-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-287

Description

aMSN (aka Alvaro's Messenger) 0.98.3 and earlier, when SSL is used, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field or a Subject Alternative Name field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an MSN server via an arbitrary certificate.

Affected configurations

• alvaro alvaros messenger (<= 0.98.3) • alvaro alvaros messenger 0.83 • alvaro alvaros messenger 0.90 • alvaro alvaros messenger 0.91 • alvaro alvaros messenger 0.92 • alvaro alvaros messenger 0.93 • alvaro alvaros messenger 0.94 • alvaro alvaros messenger 0.95 • alvaro alvaros messenger 0.96 • alvaro alvaros messenger 0.97

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References