Vulnerability in GNOME Online Accounts
CVE-2013-1799
Gnome Online Accounts (GOA) 3.6.x before 3.6.3 and 3.7.x before 3.7.91, does not properly validate SSL certificates when creating accounts for providers who use the libsoup library, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information such as credentials by sniffing the network. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0240.
Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.010 (62.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 62nd percentile — 62.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- GNOME Online Accounts — versions 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 11.10, 12.04, 12.10
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2013-March/msg00020.html (mailing-list)
- git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-online-accounts/commit/
- secunia.com/advisories/51976 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2013-March/msg00007.html (mailing-list)
- bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi
- ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1779-1 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/52791 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00046.html (vendor-advisory)