Epiphany 2.28 and 2.29, when WebKit and LibSoup are used, unconditionally displays a closed-lock icon for any URL beginning with the https: substring, without any warning to the user, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary https web sites via a crafted X.509 server certificate.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-3310 Epiphany 2.28 and 2.29, when WebKit and LibSoup are used, unconditionally displays a closed-lock icon for any URL beginning with the https: substring, without any warning to the user, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary https web sites via a crafted X.509 server certificate.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T03:03:18.997Z

Reserved: 2010-09-13T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2010-3312

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2010-10-14T05:58:13.037

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2010-3312

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