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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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2023-08-09T15:33:54.406Z
Updated: 2023-08-09T15:33:54.406Z
Reserved: 2023-08-08T13:46:25.241Z
Link: CVE-2023-40012
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2023-08-09T16:15:10.060
Modified: 2023-08-16T17:40:41.097
Link: CVE-2023-40012
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