FKIE_CVE-2012-2993

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-09-18 03:48 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:42
Severity
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
Microsoft Windows Phone 7 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 an SSL server for the (1) POP3, (2) IMAP, or (3) SMTP protocol via an arbitrary valid certificate.
References
cret@cert.orghttp://osvdb.org/85619Broken Link
cret@cert.orghttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/389795Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
cret@cert.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55569Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cret@cert.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027541Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cret@cert.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78620Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/85619Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/389795Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55569Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027541Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78620Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
microsoft windows_phone_7_firmware -
microsoft windows_phone_7 -
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      "value": "Microsoft Windows Phone 7 no comprueba el nombre de dominio en el campo nombre com\u00fan(CN) del sujeto en un certificado X.509, lo que permite ataques hombre-en-el-medio (MITM) falseando un servidor SSL para los protocolos (1) POP3, (2) IMAP, o (3) SMTP a trav\u00e9s v\u00e1lidos de su elecci\u00f3n.\r\n"
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