CVE-2009-0051

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

ZXID 0.29 and earlier does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL DSA_verify function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077.

Affected products

Zxid: through 0.29; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+20)

References

http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-016.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499827/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47837
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-016.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499827/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47837

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