CVE-2004-2621 (GCVE-0-2004-2621)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-12-04 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 01:36
VLAI?
Summary
Nortel Contivity VPN Client 2.1.7, 3.00, 3.01, 4.91, and 5.01, when opening a VPN tunnel, does not check the gateway certificate until after a dialog box has been displayed to the user, which creates a race condition that allows remote attackers to perform a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://www130.nortelnetworks.com/cgi-bin/eserv/cs… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11495 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.osvdb.org/11002 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://secunia.com/advisories/12881 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011846 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
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