Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2004-0765
The cert_TestHostName function in Mozilla before 1.7, Firefox before 0.9, and Thunderbird before 0.7, only checks the hostname portion of a certificate when the hostname portion of the URI is not a fully qualified domain name (FQDN), which allows remote attackers to spoof trusted certificates.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.010 (63.6th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 63.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11162 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-421.html (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16868 (vdb-entry)
- www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html
- marc.info/ (vendor-advisory)