CVE-2004-0765 — Partial String Comparison in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-187 — Partial String Comparison6 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.8%
top 26.49%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxMozillaMozilla Thunderbird
Timeline
PublishedAug 18
Latest updateApr 29

Description

The cert_TestHostName function in Mozilla before 1.7, Firefox before 0.9, and Thunderbird before 0.7, only checks the hostname portion of a certificate when the hostname portion of the URI is not a fully qualified domain name (FQDN), which allows remote attackers to spoof trusted certificates.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages3 packages

Patches

Patch: bugzilla.mozilla.org ↗Patch: www.redhat.com ↗Patch: bugzilla.mozilla.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-h29q-7v28-gprh: The cert_TestHostName function in Mozilla before 1↗2022-04-29
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CVEList
CVE-2004-0765: The cert_TestHostName function in Mozilla before 1↗2004-08-03
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
security flaw↗2004-02-12
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📐Framework References

1
CWE
Partial String Comparison↗
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2004-0765 security flaw↗2018-08-16
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