Vulnerability CVE-2016-20011
Published: 2021-05-25

Description:
libgrss through 0.7.0 fails to perform TLS certificate verification when downloading feeds, allowing remote attackers to manipulate the contents of feeds without detection. This occurs because of the default behavior of SoupSessionSync.

Type:

CWE-295

 (Certificate Issues)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Gnome -> Libgrss 

 References:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772647
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgrss/-/issues/4
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