Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-3765 - Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in Mutt 1.5.19/1.5.20
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
mutt_ssl.c in mutt 1.5.19 and 1.5.20, when OpenSSL is used, does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 2 | |
| Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Signature Spoofing by Key Recreation An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by exploiting a cryptographic weakness in the signature algorithm or pseudorandom number generation and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.
Statements
| contributor | Tomas Hoger |
| lastmodified | 2009-10-26 |
| organization | Red Hat |
| statement | Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of mutt as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5. |