CVE-2007-6746

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-05-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

telepathy-idle before 0.1.15 does not verify (1) that the issuer is a trusted CA, (2) that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN), or (3) the expiration date of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

Affected products

Canonical Telepathy-Idle: through 0.1.14.1; 0.1.10.1, 0.1.11.1, 0.1.11.2, 0.1.12.1, 0.1.14
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 12.10, 13.04

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104397.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00052.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/53361
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/24/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59474
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1821-1
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63810
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/104397.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00052.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/53361
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/04/24/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/59474

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