CVE-2010-3170
Mozilla Firefox SSL Certificate Common Name Wildcard Vulnerability
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, Thunderbird before 3.0.9 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9 recognize a wildcard IP address in the subject's Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority.
INFO
Published Date :
Oct. 21, 2010, 7 p.m.
Last Modified :
April 11, 2025, 12:51 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
2.9
Exploitability Score :
8.6
Affected Products
The following products are affected by CVE-2010-3170
vulnerability.
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CVE-2010-3170.
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CVE-2010-3170 vulnerability anywhere in the article.
The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2010-3170 vulnerability over time.
Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_mozilla_firefox Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00001.html Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/41839 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/42867 Added Reference http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100114250 Added Reference http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100120156 Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2123 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:210 Added Reference http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2010/mfsa2010-70.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0781.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0782.html Added Reference http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1007-1 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0061 Added Reference https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578697 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12254 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 19, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12254 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12254 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Oct. 21, 2010
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2010-3170 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2010-3170
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
1.16 }} -1.62%
score
0.76632
percentile