Attacker Value
Unknown
CVE-2008-4989
CVE-2008-4989
(Last updated February 09, 2024) ▾
MITRE ATT&CK
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Description
The _gnutls_x509_verify_certificate function in lib/x509/verify.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS before 2.6.1 trusts certificate chains in which the last certificate is an arbitrary trusted, self-signed certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to insert a spoofed certificate for any Distinguished Name (DN).
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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Data provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
Base Score:
5.9 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
2.2
Attack Vector (AV):
Network
Attack Complexity (AC):
High
Privileges Required (PR):
None
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
High
Availability (A):
None
General Information
Vendors
- canonical,
- debian,
- fedoraproject,
- gnu,
- opensuse,
- suse
Products
- debian linux 4.0,
- fedora 8,
- fedora 9,
- gnutls,
- linux enterprise 10.0,
- linux enterprise 11.0,
- linux enterprise server 10,
- linux enterprise server 11,
- opensuse,
- ubuntu linux 6.06,
- ubuntu linux 7.10,
- ubuntu linux 8.04,
- ubuntu linux 8.10
References
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