Tiago,

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Tiago Mendo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm was reading through the w3af sources :)

    Oh no! ;)

> and found that
> the sslCertificate plugin only reports problems if the certificate supports
> ssl v1, but as the comment indicates, it should report problem if v2 is
> used.
> Is there any reason for this to be like that?

    I was not the plugin developer, so I can't say. Maybe something to
do with TLS versioning? Just guessing...

> My opinion is that you should report problems for certificates supporting
> SSL version below 3. The attack on SSLv2 (the handshake downgrade attack) is
> pretty nasty.

    I agree,

> # Check for SSL version
>        # TODO why not '... < 3:'?
>        if cert.get_version() < 2:
>            i = info.info()
>            i.setName('Insecure SSL version' )

    Just commited a change to the SVN to reflect this.
    http://w3af.svn.sourceforge.net/w3af/?rev=3434&view=rev

>
>
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