CVE-2021-39358

medium

Description

In GNOME libgfbgraph through 0.2.4, gfbgraph-photo.c does not enable TLS certificate verification on the SoupSessionSync objects it creates, leaving users vulnerable to network MITM attacks. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2016-20011.

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WXXAF56BYLSES4UCLXKFCODZXTNAZ2G6/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UYI47UX6S5PAOWVWQ2KID64MCTXTH7SE/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GRCVZUNPTNFQQQCEZVP7RYY6OKHPDBC5/

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgfbgraph/-/issues/17

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: 2023-11-07

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