National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1177
Original release date:08/26/2012
Last revised:04/05/2013
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
libgdata before 0.10.2 and 0.11.x before 0.11.1 does not validate SSL certificates, which allows remote attackers to obtain user names and passwords via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack with a spoofed certificate.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
4.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752088
External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671535
External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgdata/+bug/938812
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-1547-1
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120314 Re: CVE Request: libgdata did not verify SSL certificates
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120314 Re: CVE Request: libgdata did not verify SSL certificates
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120314 CVE Request: libgdata did not verify SSL certificates
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2012:111
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2482
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 50432
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.gnome.org/browse/libgdata/commit/?id=6799f2c525a584dc998821a6ce897e463dad7840
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.gnome.org/browse/libgdata/commit/?h=libgdata-0-10&id=8eff8fa9138859e03e58c2aa76600ab63eb5c29c