CVE-2004-2621

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Summary

CVECVE-2004-2621
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2004-12-31 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2017-07-20 01:29:00 UTC
DescriptionNortel Contivity VPN Client 2.1.7, 3.00, 3.01, 4.91, and 5.01, when opening a VPN tunnel, does not check the gateway certificate until after a dialog box has been displayed to the user, which creates a race condition that allows remote attackers to perform a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Nortel Contivity 2.1.7 All All All
Hardware Nortel Contivity 3.00 All All All
Hardware Nortel Contivity 3.01 All All All
Hardware Nortel Contivity 4.91 All All All
Hardware Nortel Contivity 5.01 All All All
Hardware Nortel Contivity 2.1.7 All All All
Hardware Nortel Contivity 3.00 All All All
Hardware Nortel Contivity 3.01 All All All
Hardware Nortel Contivity 4.91 All All All
Hardware Nortel Contivity 5.01 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
11002 OSVDB www.osvdb.org
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
www130.nortelnetworks.com/cgi-bin/eserv/cs/main.jsp CONFIRM www130.nortelnetworks.com
Secunia - Advisories - Nortel Contivity VPN Client Open Tunnel Certificate Verification Issue SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Nortel Contivity VPN Client Gateway Certificate Check Failure Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Nortel Contivity VPN Client May Let Remote Users Hijack Sessions SECTRACK securitytracker.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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