Bug 1039428 (CVE-2013-6673) - CVE-2013-6673 Mozilla: Trust settings for built-in roots ignored during EV certificate validation (MFSA 2013-113)
Summary: CVE-2013-6673 Mozilla: Trust settings for built-in roots ignored during EV ce...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-6673
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1030244
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-12-09 04:31 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 01:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-12-11 04:39:28 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-12-09 04:31:43 UTC
Firefox user Sijie Xia reported that if a user explicitly removes the trust for extended validation (EV) capable root certificates in the certificate manager, the change is not properly used when validating EV certificates, causing the setting to be ignored. This removes the ability of users to explicitly untrust root certificates from specific certificate authorities.

This flaw does not affect certificates that are not extended validation certificates. All other certificate validation checks do occur, the error is the assumption that if Mozilla trusted the certificate, the user would also.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-113.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Sijie Xia as the original reporter.

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-12-11 04:39:28 UTC
Statement:

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbrid shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.


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