nss — security advisory
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.
- Products
- nss
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3.12.8-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2010-3170
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:40 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3170
nss
Fixed versions: 3.12.8-1
nss
Fixed versions: 3.12.8-1
nss
Fixed versions: 3.12.8-1
Complete source record
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"id": "d94d5af11fba15033998dcae33fab22d07bd236794a9803c989adb38e99649e4",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3170",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3170",
"summary": "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.",
"evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3170",
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"name": {
"value": "nss",
"evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
},
"prerequisites": [],
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"evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
}
],
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},
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},
{
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"severity": "unknown",
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"package": {
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"purl": "pkg:deb/debian/nss?arch=source&distro=bookworm",
"ecosystem": "Debian:12"
},
"database_specific": {
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},
"ecosystem_specific": {
"urgency": "not yet assigned"
}
},
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],
"package": {
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"purl": "pkg:deb/debian/nss?arch=source&distro=trixie",
"ecosystem": "Debian:13"
},
"database_specific": {
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},
"ecosystem_specific": {
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}
},
{
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"events": [
{
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},
{
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}
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],
"package": {
"name": "nss",
"purl": "pkg:deb/debian/nss?arch=source&distro=forky",
"ecosystem": "Debian:14"
},
"database_specific": {
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},
"ecosystem_specific": {
"urgency": "not yet assigned"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:49.876357144Z",
"provider": "osv",
"upstream": [
"CVE-2010-3170"
],
"references": [
"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3170"
]
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2010-3170",
"evidence": "/upstream"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": null
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 419180,
"published_at": "2010-10-21T19:00:02.503+00:00"
}