PT-2021-22567 · Gnome+1 · Ses Evolution+1

Michael Catanzaro · Published 2021-08-22 · Updated 2021-08-30 · CVE-2021-39361

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GNOME evolution-rss versions prior to 0.3.97

Description: The issue allows for network man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks due to the lack of TLS certificate verification. This is caused by the failure to enable verification on the SoupSessionSync objects created in network-soup.c.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 0.3.97, update to version 0.3.97 or later to enable TLS certificate verification and prevent MITM attacks.

Fix

Improper Certificate Validation

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-295

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-39361

Affected Products

Debian

Ses Evolution

References · 12

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39361 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-39361 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-39361 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-39361 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39361 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-39361 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-39361 · Vendor Advisory
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-rss/-/issues/11 · Vendor Advisory
• https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2021/05/25/reminder-soupsessionsync-and-soupsessionasync-default-to-no-tls-certificate-verification · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/19875 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/27667 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/20376 · Telegram Post