CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-20011
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-05-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-295
Description
libgrss through 0.7.0 fails to perform TLS certificate verification when downloading feeds, allowing remote attackers to manipulate the contents of feeds without detection. This occurs because of the default behavior of SoupSessionSync.
Affected configurations
• gnome libgrss (<= 0.7.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772647 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgrss/-/issues/4 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgrss/-/merge_requests/7.patch Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772647 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgrss/-/issues/4 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgrss/-/merge_requests/7.patch Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory