CVE-2010-1802 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2010-1802

libsecurity in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.4 does...

Vulnerability Description

libsecurity in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.4 does not properly perform comparisons to domain-name strings in X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a certificate associated with a similar domain name, as demonstrated by use of a www.example.con certificate to spoof www.example.com.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

libsecurity, mac os x, mac os x server
Vulnerable Versions:
10.5.8, 10.6.4

Timeline

Official Publish: August 25th, 2010
Last Modified: September 16th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.