CVE-2021-39365 Information

Description

In GNOME grilo though 0.3.13 grl-net-wc.c does not enable TLS certificate verification on the SoupSessionAsync objects it creates leaving users vulnerable to network MITM attacks. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2016-20011.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Reference

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/grilo/-/issues/146 https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2021/05/25/reminder-soupsessionsync-and-soupsessionasync-default-to-no-tls-certificate-verification/ https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4964 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00010.html

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.9