Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-0240

Title: Gnome Gnome Online Accounts Cryptographic Failures

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-0240.

CWE Category CWE-310

Published Date Apr 02, 2013

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.36%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-0240: Gnome Online Accounts (GOA) 3.4.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and 3.7.x before 3.7.5, does not properly validate SSL certificates when creating accounts such as Windows Live and Facebook accounts, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information such as credentials by sniffing the network.

Impacted Vendors

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00046.html http://secunia.com/advisories/51976 http://secunia.com/advisories/52791 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1779-1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693214 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894352 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-online-accounts/commit/?h=gnome-3-6&id=ecad8142e9ac519b9fc74b96dcb5531052bbffe1 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-online-accounts/commit/?id=bc10fdb68f75f8be84eb698ada08743b9c7c248f https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-online-accounts/commit/?id=edde7c63326242a60a075341d3fea0be0bc4d80e https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2013-March/msg00007.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00046.html http://secunia.com/advisories/51976 http://secunia.com/advisories/52791 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1779-1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693214 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894352 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-online-accounts/commit/?h=gnome-3-6&id=ecad8142e9ac519b9fc74b96dcb5531052bbffe1 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-online-accounts/commit/?id=bc10fdb68f75f8be84eb698ada08743b9c7c248f https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-online-accounts/commit/?id=edde7c63326242a60a075341d3fea0be0bc4d80e https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2013-March/msg00007.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-0240 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

April 02, 2013 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.