CVE-2013-0240

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-04-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 11.10, 12.04, 12.10
Gnome Online Accounts: 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.7.1 (+3)

References

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

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