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CVE-2012-4511

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-10-22 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

services/flickr/flickr.c in libsocialweb before 0.25.21 automatically connects to Flickr when no Flickr account is set, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

Affected products

• GNOME Libsocialweb: through 0.25.20; 0.25.0, 0.25.1, 0.25.2, 0.25.3, 0.25.4, 0.25.5 (+14)

References

• http://git.gnome.org/browse/libsocialweb/commit/?id=8c28ae1d5db5529020652cee3700c75341625503
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/10
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/11/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/23/5
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863206
• http://git.gnome.org/browse/libsocialweb/commit/?id=8c28ae1d5db5529020652cee3700c75341625503
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/10
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/11/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/23/5
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863206

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