An issue was discovered in Pidgin before 2.14.9. A remote attacker who can spoof DNS responses can redirect a client connection to a malicious server. The client will perform TLS certificate verification of the malicious domain name instead of the original XMPP service domain, allowing the attacker to take over control over the XMPP connection and to obtain user credentials and all communication content. This is similar to CVE-2022-24968.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-05-31T04:25:23

Updated: 2024-08-03T05:03:32.770Z

Reserved: 2022-03-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-26491

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-06-02T14:15:40.953

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:54:02.903

Link: CVE-2022-26491

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2022-04-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-26491 - Bugzilla