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CVE-2008-4989

Date: November 12, 2008

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).

Severity Score

3.7

Related Resources (33)

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498431/100/0/threaded

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00293.html

Url: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-260528-1

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33501

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11650

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32879

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1719

Url: http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0322

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35423

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/678-1/

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46482

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32619

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-678-2

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0982.html

Url: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/security.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4989

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021167

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1567

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32681

Url: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3217

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.html

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200901-10.xml

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:227

Url: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2886

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33694

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32687

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4989

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00222.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32232

Url: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/3215

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3086

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-4989

Severity Score

3.7

Weakness Type (CWE)

Credentials Management

CWE-255

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	3.7
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	NONE
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CVE-2008-4989

Date: November 12, 2008

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