CVE-2010-3170

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-10-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, Thunderbird before 3.0.9 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9 recognize a wildcard IP address in the subject's Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 3.5.13; 3.6, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.6, 3.6.7 (+88)
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.0.8; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+46)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 3.0.8; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+66)

References

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