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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2013-1823 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1779-1 GNOME Online Accounts vulnerability
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T15:13:33.277Z

Reserved: 2013-02-19T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2013-1799

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2013-04-02T03:23:26.253

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2013-1799

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