CVE-2011-1428

medium

Description

Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (aka WeeChat) 0.3.4 and earlier does not properly verify that the server hostname matches the domain name of the subject of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an SSL chat server via an arbitrary certificate, related to incorrect use of the GnuTLS API.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46612

http://secunia.com/advisories/43543

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=weechat.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c265cad1c95b84abfd4e8d861f25926ef13b5d91

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-03-16

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium