CVE-2009-1417

Summary

CVECVE-2009-1417
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-04-30 20:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
Descriptiongnutls-cli in GnuTLS before 2.6.6 does not verify the activation and expiration times of X.509 certificates, which allows remote attackers to successfully present a certificate that is (1) not yet valid or (2) no longer valid, related to lack of time checks in the _gnutls_x509_verify_certificate function in lib/x509/verify.c in libgnutls_x509, as used by (a) Exim, (b) OpenLDAP, and (c) libsoup.

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 Gnu Gnutls 1.0.16 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.0.17 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.0.18 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.0.19 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.0.20 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.0.21 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.0.22 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.0.23 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.0.24 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.0.25 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.1.13 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.1.14 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.1.15 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.1.16 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.1.17 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.1.18 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.1.19 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.1.20 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.1.21 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.1.22 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.1.23 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.2.0 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.2.1 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.2.10 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.2.11 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.2.2 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.2.3 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.2.4 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.2.5 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.2.6 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.2.7 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.2.8 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.2.8.1a1 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.2.9 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.3.0 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.3.1 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.3.2 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.3.3 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.3.4 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.3.5 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.4.0 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.4.1 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.4.2 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.4.3 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.4.4 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.4.5 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.5.0 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.5.1 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.5.2 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.5.3 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.5.4 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.5.5 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.6.0 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.6.1 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.6.2 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.6.3 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.0 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.1 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.10 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.11 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.12 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.13 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.14 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.15 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.16 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.17 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.18 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.19 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.2 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.3 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.4 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.5 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.6 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.7 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.8 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 1.7.9 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.0.0 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.0.1 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.0.2 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.0.3 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.0.4 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.1.0 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.1.1 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.1.2 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.1.3 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.1.4 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.1.5 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.1.6 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.1.7 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.1.8 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.2.0 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.2.1 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.2.2 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.2.3 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.2.4 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.2.5 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.3.0 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.3.1 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.3.10 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.3.11 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.3.2 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.3.3 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.3.4 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.3.5 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.3.6 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.3.7 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.3.8 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.3.9 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.4.0 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.4.1 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.4.2 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.6.0 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.6.1 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.6.2 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.6.3 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls 2.6.4 All All All
Application Gnu Gnutls All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- GnuTLS: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:116 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Gentoo update for gnutls - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
GnuTLS Prior to 2.6.6 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
GnuTLS Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gmane -- Mail To News And Back Again af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 article.gmane.org Patch
GnuTLS Command Line Interface Does Not Properly Validate X.509 Certificates - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
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

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-08-11Tomas HogerThe Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact. The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, or 5. For further details, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-1417

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