Vulnerability in Apple Safari
CVE-2007-6592
Apple Safari 2, when a user accepts an SSL server certificate on the basis of the CN domain name in the DN field, regards the certificate as also accepted for all domain names in subjectAltName:dNSName fields, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into accepting an invalid certificate for a spoofed web site.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.007 (49.2th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 49th percentile — 49.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apple Safari — versions 2
References
- securityreason.com/securityalert/3498 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483937/100/100/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483929/100/100/threaded (mailing-list)
- nils.toedtmann.net/pub/subjectAltName.txt