Vulnerability CVE-2012-5821
Published: 2012-11-04   Modified: 2012-11-05

Description:
Lynx does not verify that the server's certificate is signed by a trusted certification authority, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a crafted certificate, related to improper use of a certain GnuTLS function.

Type:

CWE-310

 (Cryptographic Issues)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.8/10
4.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
LYNX -> LYNX 

 References:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0351
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/79930
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1642-1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:101
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
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