#VU66988 Improper Certificate Validation in LibGRSS - management of RSS and Atom feeds - CVE-2016-20011

Vulnerability identifier: #VU66988

Vulnerability risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-20011

CWE-ID: CWE-295

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerable software:
LibGRSS - management of RSS and Atom feeds

Software vendor:
Gnome Development Team

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.

Install update from vendor's website.

• 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