Description
Internet Explorer 6.0 does not warn users when an expired certificate authority (CA) certificate is submitted to the user and a newer CA certificate is in the user's local repository, which could allow remote attackers to decrypt web sessions via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.
References
- ie-ssl-certificate-expired(10180) vdb-entry
- 5778 vdb-entry
- 20020923 IE6 SSL Certificate Chain Verification mailing-list