CVE-2012-5822
HIGHMozilla Zamboni - Improper Certificate Validation in Contribution Feature
Title source: llmDescription
The contribution feature in Zamboni does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate, related to use of the Python urllib2 library.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79929
Exploit x_refsource_misc
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
Scores
CVSS v3
7.4
EPSS
0.0060
EPSS Percentile
44.1%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-295
Status
published
Products (1)
mozilla/zamboni
Published
Nov 04, 2012
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026