CVE-2009-0591
The CMS_verify function in OpenSSL 0.9.8h through 0.9.8j, when CMS is enabled, does not properly handle errors associated with malformed signed attributes, which allows remote attackers to repudiate a signature that originally appeared to be valid but was actually invalid.
- EPSS
- 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 86% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-287
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- openssl:openssl
References
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2009-008.txt.asc
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-05/msg00000.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124464882609472&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127678688104458&w=2