CVE-2002-0862
Microsoft Windows 2000 - Improper Certificate Validation
Title source: ruleDescription
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.
Exploits (1)
References (8)
Scores
EPSS
0.1734
EPSS Percentile
95.1%
Details
CWE
CWE-295
Status
published
Products (9)
microsoft/internet_explorer
microsoft/office
microsoft/outlook_express
microsoft/windows_2000
microsoft/windows_98
microsoft/windows_98se
microsoft/windows_me
microsoft/windows_nt
4.0 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_xp
Published
Oct 04, 2002
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026