CVE-2024-34454 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Nintendo Wii U OS 5.5.5 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to forge SSL certificates as though they came from a Root CA, because there is a secondary verification mechanism that only checks whether a CA is known and ignores the CA details and signature (and because * is accepted as a Common Name).

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00139.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Nintendo	Wii U

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2024-34810	Nintendo Wii U OS 5.5.5 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to forge SSL certificates as though they came from a Root CA, because there is a secondary verification mechanism that only checks whether a CA is known and ignores the CA details and signature (and because * is accepted as a Common Name).

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/PretendoNetwork/SSSL
https://github.com/PretendoNetwork/SSSL-DNS

History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00078}`	epss `{'score': 0.00102}`

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Nintendo Nintendo wii U
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:nintendo:wii_u:5.5.5:::::::*
Vendors & Products		Nintendo Nintendo wii U
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-05-26T21:48:04.835Z

Updated: 2025-02-13T15:53:25.411Z

Reserved: 2024-05-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-34454

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T02:51:11.532Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-26T22:15:08.650

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:18:42.790

Link: CVE-2024-34454

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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