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CVE-2009-4831 (GCVE-0-2009-4831)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-04-29 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 07:17
VLAI
Summary
Cerulean Studios Trillian 3.1 Basic does not check SSL certificates during MSN authentication, which allows remote attackers to obtain MSN credentials via a man-in-the-middle attack with a spoofed SSL certificate.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/35620 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504573/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35509 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2009-06-26 00:00
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