# CVE-2004-0758: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote attackers can cause denial of service on SSL pages by importing a malicious CA certificate with a duplicate DN.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 3 Aug 2004
- **Updated:** 8 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6ccr-h2cv-pc67

## What is CVE-2004-0758?

CVE-2004-0758 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Mozilla, published on 3 Aug 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Mozilla 1.5 through 1.7 allows a CA certificate to be imported even when their DN is the same as that of the built-in CA root certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service to SSL pages because the malicious certificate is treated as invalid.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-0758?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Mozilla Mozilla.

## How do I fix CVE-2004-0758?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-0758 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2004-0758 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-0758 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2004-0722](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-0722/): Integer overflow in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2007-4039](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-4039/): Command injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2003-0791](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2003-0791/): Deserialization in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2005-3896](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2005-3896/): Denial of service in n/a (high 7.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2004-0758 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2004-0758 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mozilla Mozilla, published on 3 Aug 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-0758 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Mozilla Mozilla. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-0758/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-0758/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-0758
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0758
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2004-0758

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