CVE-2004-0758

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Summary

CVECVE-2004-0758
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2004-08-18 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionMozilla 1.5 through 1.7 allows a CA certificate to be imported even when their DN is the same as that of the built-in CA root certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service to SSL pages because the malicious certificate is treated as invalid.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Mozilla All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
127186 – CAN-2004-0758 Overriding built-in certificate leading to error -8182 (DoS), especially exploitable by email af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
249004 – Importing false CA certificate leading to error -8182 (perm DoS), especially exploitable by email af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#784278 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
Security Announcement af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, Galeon, Epiphany: New releases fix vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.sco.com
Mozilla Security Advisory af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mozilla.org
SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 Maintenance Pack 4 Released - Multiple Vulnerabilities Fixed af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
'[FLSA-2004:2089] Updated mozilla packages fix security vulnerabilities' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690297 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for mozilla (8d823883-0ca9-11d9-8a8a-000c41e2cdad)

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