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CVE-2009-2825

N/A
Published: November 10, 2009 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:10 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendormacOSMac OS X Server

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.8%

Description

Certificate Assistant in Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.2 does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.

Remediation

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Patch and advisory references

References (4)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00000.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3937
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36956
VDB Entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Source: [email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3184

CVSS

4.3MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-310

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