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Insecure Trust of DSA-Signed Certificates in Bitdefender Total Security HTTPS Scanning (VA-11166)

Publication date: October 18th, 2024


CVE ID:
CVE-2023-6057
CVSS scrore:
8.6 - CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
Affected vendors:
Bitdefender
Affected products:
Total Security
Vulnerability details:

A vulnerability has been discovered in Bitdefender Total Security HTTPS scanning functionality that results in the improper trust of certificates issued using the DSA signature algorithm. The product does not properly check the certificate chain, allowing an attacker to establish MITM SSL connections to arbitrary sites using a DSA-signed certificate.

Additional details:
An automatic update to product version 27.0.25.115 fixes the issue.