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CVE-2008-2809

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.0 Published: 2008-07-08 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla 1.9 M8 and earlier, Mozilla Firefox 2 before 2.0.0.15, SeaMonkey 1.1.5 and other versions before 1.1.10, Netscape 9.0, and other Mozilla-based web browsers, when a user accepts an SSL server certificate on the basis of the CN domain name in the DN field, regard the certificate as also accepted for all domain names in subjectAltName:dNSName fields, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into accepting an invalid certificate for a spoofed web site.

Affected Platforms

Mozilla FirefoxMozilla SeamonkeyMozilla GeckbNetscape Navigator

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References