CVE-2020-6750

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-01-09 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

GSocketClient in GNOME GLib through 2.62.4 may occasionally connect directly to a target address instead of connecting via a proxy server when configured to do so, because the proxy_addr field is mishandled. This bug is timing-dependent and may occur only sporadically depending on network delays. The greatest security relevance is in use cases where a proxy is used to help with privacy/anonymity, even though there is no technical barrier to a direct connection. NOTE: versions before 2.60 are unaffected.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 30, 31
GNOME GLib: from 2.60.0 through 2.62.4

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1160668
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1989
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5RIFEDSRJ4P3WFCMDUOFQ2LEILZLMDW7/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KJMLGW55HOQXHMTIPH2PWXFRBNBWVO4W/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MEM7MMAXMWCDPUH4MTUZ763MBB64RRLJ/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200127-0001/
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1160668
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1989
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5RIFEDSRJ4P3WFCMDUOFQ2LEILZLMDW7/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KJMLGW55HOQXHMTIPH2PWXFRBNBWVO4W/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MEM7MMAXMWCDPUH4MTUZ763MBB64RRLJ/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200127-0001/

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