CVE detail
CVE-2009-2417 — CVE-2009-2417
Published 2009-08-14 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor curl · Product libcurl · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0346
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
88.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
lib/ssluse.c in cURL and libcurl 7.4 through 7.19.5, when OpenSSL is used, does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References