Improper Certificate Validation in LibGRSS - management of RSS and Atom feeds - CVE-2016-20011

Vulnerability identifier: #VU66988

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-20011

CWE-ID: CWE-295

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.

The vulnerability exists due to missing certificate validation on the SoupSessionSync objects. A remote attacker can perform Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack.

LibGRSS - management of RSS and Atom feeds
openEuler
libzapojit
libzapojit-debuginfo
libzapojit-debugsource
libzapojit-devel

Install update from vendor's website.

libzapojit - update to 0.0.3-16
libzapojit-debuginfo - update to 0.0.3-16
libzapojit-debugsource - update to 0.0.3-16
libzapojit-devel - update to 0.0.3-16

• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772647
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgrss/-/issues/4
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgrss/-/merge_requests/7.patch

• MitM attack in GNOME libgrss
• openEuler update for libzapojit