5.1 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.019 Low
EPSS
Percentile
88.5%
Sun Microsystems uses a variety of X.509 keys signed by VeriSign to securevarious web sites. Among these certificates are two that were revoked on October 19, 2000. The certificate IDs for these revoked certificates are
3181 B12D C422 5DAC A340 CF86 2710 ABE6
and
1705 FB13 A22F 9AF3 C130 F562 6E12 504C
The description below is an excerpt from Sun Security Bulletin 198.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. Security Bulletin
Bulletin Number: #00198
Date: October 24, 2000
Cross-Ref:
Title: Browser Certificates
1.Bulletin Topics
Sun advises of a potential compromise of 2 specific security certificates which had limited distribution.
Sun recommends that you follow the directions found at <http://sunsolve5.sun.com/secbull/certificate_howto.html> to determine if
your web browser has accepted any of the potentially compromised certificates.
2.Who is Affected
A web browser that has accepted a Sun certificate with one the following serial numbers:
3181 B12D C422 5DAC A340 CF86 2710 ABE6 (Internet Explorer)
17:05:FB:13:A2:2F:9A:F3:C1:30:F5:62:6E:12:50:4C (Netscape)
3.Understanding the Vulnerability
Web browsers accept security certificates from trusted sources. A specific certificate from Sun may have received outside
exposure.
Systems that encounter this certificate are potentially vulnerable to attack from malicious applets, applications or components.
4.Corrective Action
Follow the instructions at <http://sunsolve5.sun.com/secbull/certificate_howto.html> to determine if your browser has accepted one
of the potentially compromised certificates. If your browser contains this particular certificate, follow the instructions to remove it.
Users who accept these certificates into their browser may inadvertently run malicious code signed by the compromised certificates. Any such code would appear to be from Sun Microsystems, thus creating a misleading sense of trust.
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Group | Score | Vector |
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Base | ||
Temporal | ||
Environmental |
<http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1851>
This document was written by Shawn Hernan.
CVE IDs: | CVE-2000-0889 |
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CERT Advisory: | CA-2000-19 Severity Metric: |