CVE-2002-0862

N/A

Description

The (1) CertGetCertificateChain, (2) CertVerifyCertificateChainPolicy, and (3) WinVerifyTrust APIs within the CryptoAPI for Microsoft products including Microsoft Windows 98 through XP, Office for Mac, Internet Explorer for Mac, and Outlook Express for Mac, do not properly verify the Basic Constraints of intermediate CA-signed X.509 certificates, which allows remote attackers to spoof the certificates of trusted sites via a man-in-the-middle attack for SSL sessions, as originally reported for Internet Explorer and IIS.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published10/4/2002

Last Modified4/16/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

apple:macosmicrosoft:internet_explorermicrosoft:officemicrosoft:outlook_expressmicrosoft:windows_2000microsoft:windows_98microsoft:windows_98semicrosoft:windows_memicrosoft:windows_ntmicrosoft:windows_xp

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-295

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102866120821995&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102918200405308&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102976967730450&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-050(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9776(cve@mitre.org)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1056(cve@mitre.org)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1332(cve@mitre.org)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2671(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102866120821995&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102918200405308&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102976967730450&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-050(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9776(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1056(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1332(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2671(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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