CVE-2004-2761

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Summary

CVECVE-2004-2761
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-01-05 20:30:02 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is not collision resistant, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to conduct spoofing attacks, as demonstrated by attacks on the use of MD5 in the signature algorithm of an X.509 certificate.

Risk And Classification

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

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

Problem Types: CWE-310 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ietf Md5 - All All All
Application Ietf X.509 Certificate - All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Red Hat Certificate System Bugs Let Remote Users Obtain One-Time PINs and Generate Certificates af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: nss-3.12.2.0-2.fc9 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Creating a rogue CA certificate af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.phreedom.org
Fedora update for nss - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Philips Intellispace Portal ISP Vulnerabilities | ICS-CERT af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ics-cert.us-cert.gov
Red Hat Certificate Server MD5 and SCEP Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
USN-740-1: NSS vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
MD5 Considered Harmful Today: Creating a rogue CA certificate - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
Your request has been blocked. This could be due to several reasons. af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.microsoft.com Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Bug 648886 – CVE-2004-2761 MD5: MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is not collision resistant af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#836068 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Page not found | Dan Kaminsky's Blog af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.doxpara.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Document Display | HPE Support Center af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.hpe.com
Security Vulnerability Research & Defense : Information regarding MD5 collisions problem af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blogs.technet.com
IETF RFC 3279 X.509 Certificate MD5 Signature Collision Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/SoftIntCodeSign af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.win.tue.nl
Document Display | HPE Support Center af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 h20566.www2.hpe.com
Cisco Security Response: MD5 Hashes May Allow for Certificate Spoofing   [Products & Services] - Cisco Systems af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.cisco.com
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Tim Callan's SSL Blog - Online Security af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blogs.verisign.com
Document Display | HPE Support Center af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 h20566.www2.hpe.com
MD5 Weaknesses Could Lead to Certificate Forgery at Mozilla Security Blog af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blog.mozilla.com
www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.win.tue.nl
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-01-07Mark J CoxPlease see http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-15379
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