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CVE-2021-39365

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-295

Description

In GNOME grilo though 0.3.13, grl-net-wc.c does not enable TLS certificate verification on the SoupSessionAsync objects it creates, leaving users vulnerable to network MITM attacks. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2016-20011.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0, 11.0
• GNOME Grilo: through 0.3.13

References

• https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2021/05/25/reminder-soupsessionsync-and-soupsessionasync-default-to-no-tls-certificate-verification/
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/grilo/-/issues/146
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00010.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4964
• https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2021/05/25/reminder-soupsessionsync-and-soupsessionasync-default-to-no-tls-certificate-verification/
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/grilo/-/issues/146
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00010.html
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4964

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