CVE-2008-3249
Published Jul 21, 2008
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- Description
- The client in Lenovo System Update before 3.14 does not properly validate the certificate when establishing an SSL connection, which allows remote attackers to install arbitrary packages via an SSL certificate whose X.509 headers match a public certificate used by IBM.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5.1
- Impact score
- 6.4
- Exploitability score
- 4.9
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-255
Configurations
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