CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1431
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-09-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The Wocky module in Telepathy Gabble before 0.16.6 and 0.17.x before 0.17.4, when connecting to a "legacy Jabber server," does not properly enforce the WockyConnector:tls-required flag, which allows remote attackers to bypass TLS verification and perform a man-in-the-middle attacks.
Affected configurations
• simon mcvittie telepathy gabble (<= 0.16.5)
• simon mcvittie telepathy gabble 0.16.0
• simon mcvittie telepathy gabble 0.16.1
• simon mcvittie telepathy gabble 0.16.2
• simon mcvittie telepathy gabble 0.16.3
• simon mcvittie telepathy gabble 0.16.4
• simon mcvittie telepathy gabble 0.17.0
• simon mcvittie telepathy gabble 0.17.1
• simon mcvittie telepathy gabble 0.17.2
• simon mcvittie telepathy gabble 0.17.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/438 Mailing List, Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53779 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2702 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1873-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65036 Patch
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/438 Mailing List, Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/53779 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2702 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1873-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65036 Patch