CVE
- Id
- 5252
- CVE No.
- CVE-2002-0862
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- The (1) CertGetCertificateChain, (2) CertVerifyCertificateChainPolicy, and (3) WinVerifyTrust APIs within the CryptoAPI for Microsoft products including Microsoft Windows 98 through XP, Office for Mac, Internet Explorer for Mac, and Outlook Express for Mac, do not properly verify the Basic Constraints of intermediate CA-signed X.509 certificates, which allows remote attackers to spoof the certificates of trusted sites via a man-in-the-middle attack for SSL sessions, as originally reported for Internet Explorer and IIS.
- Phase
- Modified (20061101)
- Votes
- ACCEPT(3) Cole, Green, Wall | NOOP(2) Christey, Cox
- Comments
- Christey> Note: CVE-2002-0828 is an earlier discovery of this candidate. | That candidate will be REJECTED in favor of this one, | which comes from a more authoritative source and is | more accurate.