An issue was discovered in Pidgin before 2.14.9. A remote attacker who can spoof DNS responses can redirect a client connection to a malicious server. The client will perform TLS certificate verification of the malicious domain name instead of the original XMPP service domain, allowing the attacker to take over control over the XMPP connection and to obtain user credentials and all communication content. This is similar to CVE-2022-24968.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - pidgin: MITM attack possible on non-DNSSEC XMPP connections (CVE-2022-26491)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The version of pidgin installed on the remote host is prior to 2.10.11-9. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2115 advisory.

    An issue was discovered in Pidgin before 2.14.9. A remote attacker who can spoof DNS responses can     redirect a client connection to a malicious server. The client will perform TLS certificate verification     of the malicious domain name instead of the original XMPP service domain, allowing the attacker to take     over control over the XMPP connection and to obtain user credentials and all communication content. This     is similar to CVE-2022-24968. (CVE-2022-26491)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the pidgin package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - An issue was discovered in Pidgin before 2.14.9. A remote attacker who can spoof DNS responses can     redirect a client connection to a malicious server. The client will perform TLS certificate verification     of the malicious domain name instead of the original XMPP service domain, allowing the attacker to take     over control over the XMPP connection and to obtain user credentials and all communication content. This     is similar to CVE-2022-24968. (CVE-2022-26491)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3043 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in Pidgin before 2.14.9. A remote attacker who can spoof DNS responses can     redirect a client connection to a malicious server. The client will perform TLS certificate verification     of the malicious domain name instead of the original XMPP service domain, allowing the attacker to take     over control over the XMPP connection and to obtain user credentials and all communication content. This     is similar to CVE-2022-24968. (CVE-2022-26491)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:1693-1 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in Pidgin before 2.14.9. A remote attacker who can spoof DNS responses can     redirect a client connection to a malicious server. The client will perform TLS certificate verification     of the malicious domain name instead of the original XMPP service domain, allowing the attacker to take     over control over the XMPP connection and to obtain user credentials and all communication content. This     is similar to CVE-2022-24968. (CVE-2022-26491)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLED_SAP12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:1664-1 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in Pidgin before 2.14.9. A remote attacker who can spoof DNS responses can     redirect a client connection to a malicious server. The client will perform TLS certificate verification     of the malicious domain name instead of the original XMPP service domain, allowing the attacker to take     over control over the XMPP connection and to obtain user credentials and all communication content. This     is similar to CVE-2022-24968. (CVE-2022-26491)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:1665-1 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in Pidgin before 2.14.9. A remote attacker who can spoof DNS responses can     redirect a client connection to a malicious server. The client will perform TLS certificate verification     of the malicious domain name instead of the original XMPP service domain, allowing the attacker to take     over control over the XMPP connection and to obtain user credentials and all communication content. This     is similar to CVE-2022-24968. (CVE-2022-26491)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of pidgin installed on the remote host is prior to 2.12.0 / 2.14.9. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SSA:2022-120-01 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in Pidgin before 2.14.9. A remote attacker who can spoof DNS responses can     redirect a client connection to a malicious server. The client will perform TLS certificate verification     of the malicious domain name instead of the original XMPP service domain, allowing the attacker to take     over control over the XMPP connection and to obtain user credentials and all communication content. This     is similar to CVE-2022-24968. (CVE-2022-26491)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199342	RHEL 8 : pidgin (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
196315	RHEL 6 : pidgin (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
196274	RHEL 7 : pidgin (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
178558	Amazon Linux 2 : pidgin (ALAS-2023-2115)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
164209	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : pidgin (EulerOS-SA-2022-2230)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
164172	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : pidgin (EulerOS-SA-2022-2277)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
161907	Debian DLA-3043-1 : pidgin - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
161256	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : pidgin (SUSE-SU-2022:1693-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
161239	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : pidgin (SUSE-SU-2022:1664-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
161221	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : pidgin (SUSE-SU-2022:1665-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
160394	Slackware Linux 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / 15.0 / current pidgin Vulnerability (SSA:2022-120-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	medium

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