Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-1799

Title: Gnome Gnome Online Accounts Cryptographic Failures

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-1799.

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)
1.03%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-1799: Gnome Online Accounts (GOA) 3.6.x before 3.6.3 and 3.7.x before 3.7.91, does not properly validate SSL certificates when creating accounts for providers who use the libsoup library, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information such as credentials by sniffing the network. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0240.

Impacted Vendors

G
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.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695106 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-online-accounts/commit/?id=9cf4bc0ced2c53bcdd36922caa65afc8a167bbd8 https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2013-March/msg00007.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2013-March/msg00020.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.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695106 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-online-accounts/commit/?id=9cf4bc0ced2c53bcdd36922caa65afc8a167bbd8 https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2013-March/msg00007.html https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2013-March/msg00020.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-2013-1799 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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.