CVE-2009-4565

Description

sendmail before 8.14.4 does not properly handle a character in a Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which (1) allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL-based SMTP servers via a crafted server certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, and (2) allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a crafted client certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.

Risk Information

Base Score

7.3

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.771

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
(RHSA-2010:0237) Low: sendmail security and bug fix update sendmail-8.13.8-8.el5.i386.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2010:0237) Low: sendmail security and bug fix update sendmail-8.13.8-8.el5.x86_64.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2010:0237) Low: sendmail security and bug fix update sendmail-cf-8.13.8-8.el5.i386.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2010:0237) Low: sendmail security and bug fix update sendmail-cf-8.13.8-8.el5.x86_64.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2010:0237) Low: sendmail security and bug fix update sendmail-devel-8.13.8-8.el5.i386.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2010:0237) Low: sendmail security and bug fix update sendmail-devel-8.13.8-8.el5.x86_64.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2010:0237) Low: sendmail security and bug fix update sendmail-doc-8.13.8-8.el5.i386.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2010:0237) Low: sendmail security and bug fix update sendmail-doc-8.13.8-8.el5.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

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