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MEDIUM

security flaw

Published Aug 3, 2004

Description

Mozilla 1.5 through 1.7 allows a CA certificate to be imported even when their DN is the same as that of the built-in CA root certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service to SSL pages because the malicious certificate is treated as invalid.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (17)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Aug 3, 2004
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Aug 2, 2004
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Jul 3, 2004