CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-6746

5.8 MEDIUM Published 2013-05-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-05-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

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.

Affected configurations

• canonical telepathy-idle (<= 0.1.14.1) • canonical telepathy-idle 0.1.10.1 • canonical telepathy-idle 0.1.11.1 • canonical telepathy-idle 0.1.11.2 • canonical telepathy-idle 0.1.12.1 • canonical telepathy-idle 0.1.14 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 13.04

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness
  • CWE-298 Improper Validation of Certificate Expiration weakness

References