CVE-2010-1802

Apple Libsecurity - Authentication Bypass

Title source: rule

Description

libsecurity in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.4 does not properly perform comparisons to domain-name strings in X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a certificate associated with a similar domain name, as demonstrated by use of a www.example.con certificate to spoof www.example.com.

Scores

EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 30.7%

Classification

CWE
CWE-287
Status draft

Affected Products (5)

apple/libsecurity
apple/mac_os_x
apple/mac_os_x
apple/mac_os_x_server
apple/mac_os_x_server

Timeline

Published Aug 25, 2010
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026