Description

It can impact both website and the users:

  • Warning error messages displayed by browsers when visiting the site
  • Personal information at risk from man-in-the-middle attacks
  • Reduction in trust as the site becomes insecure
  • Ability for an attacker to create identical phishing website

Remediation

The process of reissuing revoked SSL certificates varies depending on the host or the certificate authority used. Please refer to the corresponding documentation.

References

Certificate revocation

Related Vulnerabilities

Perl Improper Certificate Validation Vulnerability (CVE-2023-31484)

Nginx Improper Certificate Validation Vulnerability (CVE-2021-3618)

Django Improper Certificate Validation Vulnerability (CVE-2020-13254)

PostgreSQL Improper Certificate Validation Vulnerability (CVE-2021-43766)

Beego Framework Improper Certificate Validation Vulnerability (CVE-2024-40464)

Severity

High

Classification

CWE-295 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N