CVE-2013-1431

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-09-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Wocky module in Telepathy Gabble before 0.16.6 and 0.17.x before 0.17.4, when connecting to a "legacy Jabber server," does not properly enforce the WockyConnector:tls-required flag, which allows remote attackers to bypass TLS verification and perform a man-in-the-middle attacks.

Affected products

Simon Mcvittie Telepathy Gabble: through 0.16.5; 0.16.0, 0.16.1, 0.16.2, 0.16.3, 0.16.4, 0.17.0 (+3)

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/438
http://secunia.com/advisories/53779
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2702
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1873-1
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65036
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/438
http://secunia.com/advisories/53779
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2702
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1873-1
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65036

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