Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer

CVE-2014-2783

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 through 11 does not prevent use of wildcard EV SSL certificates, which might allow remote attackers to spoof a trust level by leveraging improper issuance of a wildcard certificate by a recognized Certification Authority, aka "Extended Validation (EV) Certificate Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability."

EPSS: 0.086 (94.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 7, 8, 9
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)