Medium 6.4Published Aug 25, 2010

CVE-2010-1802libsecurity in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.4 does not properly perform comparisons to domain-name strings in X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a…

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libsecurity in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.4 does not properly perform comparisons to domain-name strings in X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via a certificate associated with a similar domain name, as demonstrated by use of a www.example.con certificate to spoof www.example.com.

CVSS: 6.4 MEDIUM (v2.0, NVD)AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-287
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

apple libsecurity apple:libsecurity	all versions	NVD
apple mac_os_x apple:mac_os_x	10.5.8; 10.6.4	NVD
apple mac_os_x_server apple:mac_os_x_server	10.5.8; 10.6.4	NVD

References

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Aug/msg00003.html	vendor-advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1024359
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4312	patch, vendor-advisory

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