CVE-2010-3170
nss - cryptographic weaknesses
EPSS 0.98%
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, Thunderbird before 3.0.9 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9 recognize a wildcard IP address in the subject's Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority.
How to fix CVE-2010-3170
To remediate CVE-2010-3170, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/nss—upgrade to 3.12.8-1 or later
- —upgrade to 3.12.3.1-0lenny2 or later
Is CVE-2010-3170 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 3.12.8-1
- from 0, < 3.12.3.1-0lenny2