CVE-2009-0049

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-01-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

Belgian eID middleware (eidlib) 2.6.0 and earlier does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature for DSA and ECDSA keys, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077.

Affected products

Eidlib: through 2.6.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34029
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-016.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499827/100/0/threaded
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/34029
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-016.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499827/100/0/threaded

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