Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-3766 - Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in Mutt 1.5.16/1.5.17/1.5.18
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
mutt_ssl.c in mutt 1.5.16 and other versions before 1.5.19, when OpenSSL is used, does not verify the domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 3 | |
| 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.
Nessus
| NASL family | Mandriva Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2012-048.NASL |
| description | A vulnerability has been found and corrected in mutt : Mutt does not verify that the smtps server hostname matches the domain name of the subject of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an SSL SMTP server via an arbitrary certificate, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-3766 (CVE-2011-1429). The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 58575 |
| published | 2012-04-03 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/58575 |
| title | Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : mutt (MDVSA-2012:048) |
Statements
| contributor | Tomas Hoger |
| lastmodified | 2009-11-26 |
| organization | Red Hat |
| statement | Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-3766 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact, a future update may address this flaw. |