GNOME up to 3.7.90 SSL Certificate Verification Service cryptographic issue

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in GNOME up to 3.7.90. The affected element is an unknown function of the component SSL Certificate Verification Service. Such manipulation leads to cryptographic issue. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2013-1799. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in GNOME up to 3.7.90. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component SSL Certificate Verification Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cryptographic issue vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-310. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Gnome Online Accounts (GOA) 3.6.x before 3.6.3 and 3.7.x before 3.7.91, does not properly validate SSL certificates when creating accounts for providers who use the libsoup library, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information such as credentials by sniffing the network. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0240.

The weakness was shared 03/05/2013 as not defined changelog entry (Website). The advisory is shared for download at mail.gnome.org. The vendor cooperated in the coordination of the public release. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2013-1799 since 02/19/2013. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1600.

After immediately, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 65685 (Ubuntu 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : gnome-online-accounts vulnerability (USN-1779-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Ubuntu Local Security Checks.

Upgrading to version 3.7.91 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (83145), Tenable (65685), SecurityFocus (BID 58787†), OSVDB (90954†) and Secunia (SA52791†). The entry VDB-63919 is related to this item. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Cryptographic issue
CWE: CWE-310
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 65685
Nessus Name: Ubuntu 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : gnome-online-accounts vulnerability (USN-1779-1)
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OpenVAS ID: 841377
OpenVAS Name: Ubuntu Update for gnome-online-accounts USN-1779-1
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: GNOME 3.7.91

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: mail.gnome.org
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2013-1799 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2013-1799
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-7904

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X-Force: 83145
SecurityFocus: 58787 - GNOME Online Accounts CVE-2013-1799 SSL Certificate Validation Security Bypass Vulnerability
Secunia: 52791 - Ubuntu update for gnome-online-accounts, Less Critical
OSVDB: 90954
Vulnerability Center: 45357 - Gnome Online Accounts (GOA) Remote Security Bypass due to an Error in the libsoup Library, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/08/2013 14:00
Updated: 05/06/2021 06:50
Changes: 03/08/2013 14:00 (79), 06/01/2017 16:04 (2), 05/06/2021 06:50 (3)
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