CVE-2012-2993: Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 does not verify the domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an SSL server for the (1) POP3, (2) IMAP, or (3) SMTP protocol via an arbitrary valid certificate.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Firmware: affected versions not specified

Published 2012-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.