Security Advisory SA5 - Flaw in Certificate Enrollment Control Could Allow Deletion of Digital Certificates

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Secunia Advisory SA5

Flaw in Certificate Enrollment Control Could Allow Deletion of Digital Certificates

Secunia Advisory

SA5

Release Date

2002-08-29

Last Update

2002-09-02

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Exposure of sensitive information

Where

From remote

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Software:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2002-0699 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

It is possible for an attacker to use a flaw in an ActiveX control called Certificate Enrollment Control to delete user certificates.

Certificate Enrollment Control is used when submitting certificate requests.

If user certificates are deleted, the user may be prevented from reading and sending encrypted emails og accessing EFS (Encrypted File System).

Solution
Microsoft has issued a patch:
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