CVE-2009-2666

Description

socket.c in fetchmail before 6.3.11 does not properly handle a character in a domain name in the subjects 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.

Risk Information

Base Score

6.5

MODERATE

Vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.665

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
(RHSA-2009:1427) Moderate: fetchmail security update fetchmail-6.3.6-1.1.el5_3.1.i386.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2009:1427) Moderate: fetchmail security update fetchmail-6.3.6-1.1.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234