Security Advisory

CVE-2008-4989

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-11-13 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 10:31:28
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The _gnutls_x509_verify_certificate function in lib/x509/verify.c in libgnutls in GnuTLS before 2.6.1 trusts certificate chains in which the last certificate is an arbitrary trusted, self-signed certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to insert a spoofed certificate for any Distinguished Name (DN).