CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-4197
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-01-03
- 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-264
Description
etc/inc/certs.inc in the PKI implementation in pfSense before 2.0.1 creates each X.509 certificate with a true value for the CA basic constraint, which allows remote attackers to create sub-certificates for arbitrary subjects by leveraging the private key.
Affected configurations
• pfsense pfsense (<= 2.0)
• pfsense pfsense 1.0.x
• pfsense pfsense 1.2.1
• pfsense pfsense 1.2.2
• pfsense pfsense 1.2.3
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-12/0152.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46780 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/77982 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51169 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71969 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense/commit/1379d66f11aaf72982a70287b83e24efcd18898e github.com
- https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense/commit/87b4deb2b2dae9013e6aa0fe490d6a5a04a27894 github.com
- https://www.trustmatta.com/advisories/MATTA-2011-001.txt www.trustmatta.com
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-12/0152.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46780 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/77982 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51169 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71969 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense/commit/1379d66f11aaf72982a70287b83e24efcd18898e github.com
- https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense/commit/87b4deb2b2dae9013e6aa0fe490d6a5a04a27894 github.com
- https://www.trustmatta.com/advisories/MATTA-2011-001.txt www.trustmatta.com