CVE-2007-6746
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.8 · Improper input validation
5.8CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
telepathy-idle before 0.1.15 does not verify (1) that the issuer is a trusted CA, (2) that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN), or (3) the expiration date of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53361Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104397.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00052.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/24/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59474
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1821-1
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63810