CVE-2014-1492

nss: IDNA hostname matching code does not follow RFC 6125 recommendation (MFSA 2014-45)

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

2.6

CVSS 2.0

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Published · March 18, 2014

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

It was found that the implementation of Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) hostname matching in NSS did not follow the RFC 6125 recommendations. This could lead to certain invalid certificates with international characters to be accepted as valid.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWE-295 · Improper Certificate Validation