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Untrusted Root Certificate - Detect

ID: untrusted-root-certificate

Severity: low

Author: pussycat0x

Tags: ssl,tls,untrusted

A root certificate is a digital certificate issued by a trusted certificate authority that acts as a basis for other digital certificates. An untrusted root certificate is a certificate that is issued by an authority that is not trusted by the computer, and therefore cannot be used to authenticate websites or other digital certificates.

id: untrusted-root-certificate
info:
name: Untrusted Root Certificate - Detect
author: pussycat0x
severity: low
description: |
A root certificate is a digital certificate issued by a trusted certificate authority that acts as a basis for other digital certificates. An untrusted root certificate is a certificate that is issued by an authority that is not trusted by the computer, and therefore cannot be used to authenticate websites or other digital certificates.
reference:
- https://www.sslmarket.com/ssl/trusted-and-untrusted-certificate
- https://www.invicti.com/web-vulnerability-scanner/vulnerabilities/ssl-untrusted-root-certificate/
metadata:
verified: true
max-request: 1
tags: ssl,tls,untrusted
ssl:
- address: "{{Host}}:{{Port}}"
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- "untrusted == true"
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100aa7739b3d6545972ea354d00c3b4a5768220f25772eb6ea1663ef97a36eefa54022100a09b42cdc40b1b8b145e97bc448b94cdeb5b5f19e6b04458eb19bd0dd5443a7c:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "ssl/untrusted-root-certificate.yaml"

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