Vulnerability CVE-2013-1431
Published: 2013-09-23   Modified: 2013-09-24

Description:
The Wocky module in Telepathy Gabble before 0.16.6 and 0.17.x before 0.17.4, when connecting to a "legacy Jabber server," does not properly enforce the WockyConnector:tls-required flag, which allows remote attackers to bypass TLS verification and perform a man-in-the-middle attacks.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
telepathy-gabble TLS bypass via use of legacy Jabber
Maksim Otstavnov
31.05.2013

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Simon mcvittie -> Telepathy gabble 
Simonmcvittie -> Telepathy gabble 

 References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/438
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2702
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1873-1
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65036
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