CVE-2021-39365

medium

Description

In GNOME grilo though 0.3.13, grl-net-wc.c does not enable TLS certificate verification on the SoupSessionAsync objects it creates, leaving users vulnerable to network MITM attacks. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2016-20011.

References

Advisories
More

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4964

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00010.html

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/grilo/-/issues/146

https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2021/05/25/reminder-soupsessionsync-and-soupsessionasync-default-to-no-tls-certificate-verification/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-08-22

Updated: 2021-12-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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