uthenticode is a small cross-platform library for partially verifying Authenticode digital signatures. Versions of uthenticode prior to the 2.x series did not check Extended Key Usages in certificates, in violation of the Authenticode X.509 certificate profile. As a result, a malicious user could produce a "signed" PE file that uthenticode would verify and consider valid using an X.509 certificate that isn't entitled to produce code signatures (e.g., a SSL certificate). By design, uthenticode does not perform full-chain validation. However, the absence of EKU validation was an unintended oversight. The 2.0.0 release series includes EKU checks. There are no workarounds to this vulnerability.
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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2023-08-09T15:33:54.406Z

Updated: 2024-10-03T15:15:51.372Z

Reserved: 2023-08-08T13:46:25.241Z

Link: CVE-2023-40012

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T18:24:54.408Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2023-08-09T16:15:10.060

Modified: 2023-08-16T17:40:41.097

Link: CVE-2023-40012

cve-icon Redhat

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