CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-2783
6.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-07-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 through 11 does not prevent use of wildcard EV SSL certificates, which might allow remote attackers to spoof a trust level by leveraging improper issuance of a wildcard certificate by a recognized Certification Authority, aka "Extended Validation (EV) Certificate Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability."
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 7
• microsoft internet explorer 8
• microsoft internet explorer 9
• microsoft internet explorer 10
• microsoft internet explorer 11
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59775 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68391 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030532 www.securitytracker.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2014/ms14-037 docs.microsoft.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59775 secunia.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68391 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030532 www.securitytracker.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2014/ms14-037 docs.microsoft.com