CVE-2012-1177

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

libgdata before 0.10.2 and 0.11.x before 0.11.1 does not validate SSL certificates, which allows remote attackers to obtain user names and passwords via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack with a spoofed certificate.

Affected products

GNOME Libgdata: through 0.10.1; through 0.11.0

References

http://git.gnome.org/browse/libgdata/commit/?h=libgdata-0-10&id=8eff8fa9138859e03e58c2aa76600ab63eb5c29c
http://git.gnome.org/browse/libgdata/commit/?id=6799f2c525a584dc998821a6ce897e463dad7840
http://secunia.com/advisories/50432
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2482
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:111
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/8
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1547-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgdata/+bug/938812
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671535
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752088

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