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CVE-2004-0758 (GCVE-0-2004-0758)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-08-03 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 00:31
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Summary
Mozilla 1.5 through 1.7 allows a CA certificate to be imported even when their DN is the same as that of the built-in CA root certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service to SSL pages because the malicious certificate is treated as invalid.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2004-08-02 00:00
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