CVE-2013-1431

high

Description

The Wocky module in Telepathy Gabble before 0.16.6 and 0.17.x before 0.17.4, when connecting to a "legacy Jabber server," does not properly enforce the WockyConnector:tls-required flag, which allows remote attackers to bypass TLS verification and perform a man-in-the-middle attacks.

References

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65036

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1873-1

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2702

http://secunia.com/advisories/53779

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/438

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-09-23

Updated: 2016-11-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.4

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

Severity: High