# CVE-2004-0758: Mozilla 1.5 through 1.7 allows a CA certificate to be imported even when their DN is the same as that of the built-in CA root certificate, w

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2004-08-03 · Updated: 2024-08-08

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Mozilla 1.5 through 1.7 allows a CA certificate to be imported even when their DN is the same as that of the built-in CA root certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service to SSL pages because the malicious certificate is treated as invalid.

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## References

- http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html
- ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2005.49/SCOSA-2005.49.txt
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_36_mozilla.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-421.html
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-22.xml
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109900315219363&w=2
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3134
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15495
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16706
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10304
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/784278
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249004
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127186

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