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…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.95% · top 39% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)Other CVEs with CWE-20

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• openSUSE-SU-2013:0915 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• FEDORA-2013-6534 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 59474 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• USN-1821-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 53361 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20130424 CVE(-2007-xxxx?) request: telepathy-idle does not check SSL certificates (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63810 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 16:18 UTC.