CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-24968

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2022-02-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-02-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-295

Description

In Mellium mellium.im/xmpp through 0.21.0, an attacker capable of spoofing DNS TXT records can redirect a WebSocket connection request to a server under their control without causing TLS certificate verification to fail. This occurs because the wrong host name is selected during this verification.

Affected configurations

• mellium xmpp (>= 0.18.0 < 0.21.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness

References