CVE-2013-1799 (GCVE-0-2013-1799)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-03-28 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 15:13
VLAI
Summary
Gnome Online Accounts (GOA) 3.6.x before 3.6.3 and 3.7.x before 3.7.91, does not properly validate SSL certificates when creating accounts for providers who use the libsoup library, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information such as credentials by sniffing the network. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0240.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-li… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-online-account… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/51976 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-li… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695106 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1779-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/52791 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693214 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
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