CVE-2004-2761

Summary

CVECVE-2004-2761
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-01-05 20:30:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-19 15:30:00 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

Problem Types: CWE-310

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

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

References

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