CVE-2009-0126
The decrypt_public function in lib/crypt.cpp in the client in Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) 6.2.14 and 6.4.5 does not check the return value from the OpenSSL RSA_public_decrypt function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-287
- EPSS score
- 2.4% (84th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-0135)
- Published
- January 15, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-0135 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- berkeley / boinc client
- berkeley / boinc client
References
- http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/changeset/16883
- http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/823(Vendor Advisory)
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511521(Exploit)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/12/4
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33806
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33828
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479664(Exploit)
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-February/msg00034.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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