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HIGH

security flaw

Published Jun 5, 2003

Description

Konqueror Embedded and KDE 2.2.2 and earlier does not validate the Common Name (CN) field for X.509 Certificates, which could allow remote attackers to spoof certificates via a man-in-the-middle attack.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (12)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jun 5, 2003
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Jun 3, 2003
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Jun 2, 2003