CVE-2012-1177 (GCVE-0-2012-1177)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-26 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:53
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Summary
libgdata before 0.10.2 and 0.11.x before 0.11.1 does not validate SSL certificates, which allows remote attackers to obtain user names and passwords via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack with a spoofed certificate.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2012-02-22 00:00
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