CVE-2016-20011

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnome
Status
Libgrss
Vendor
CVE Published:
25 May 2021

Summary

libgrss through 0.7.0 fails to perform TLS certificate verification when downloading feeds, allowing remote attackers to manipulate the contents of feeds without detection. This occurs because of the default behavior of SoupSessionSync.

References

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772647
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https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgrss/-/issues/4
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https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgrss/-/merge_requests/7...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
High
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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