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Secunia Advisory SA5

Flaw in Certificate Enrollment Control Could Allow Deletion of Digital Certificates
Secunia Advisory SA5
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Release Date 2002-08-29
Last Update 2002-09-02
   
Popularity 8,208 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2002-0699 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

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:
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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