CVE-2012-1177
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.1EPSS 1.9%EU EUVD
libgdata before 0.10.2 and 0.11.x before 0.11.1 does not validate SSL certificates, which allows remote attackers to obtain user names and passwords via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack with a spoofed certificate.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 1.9% (80th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-1206)
- Published
- August 26, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-1206 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnome / libgdata
References
- http://git.gnome.org/browse/libgdata/commit/?h=libgdata-0-10&id=8eff8fa9138859e03e58c2aa76600ab63eb5c29c
- http://git.gnome.org/browse/libgdata/commit/?id=6799f2c525a584dc998821a6ce897e463dad7840
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50432
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2482
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:111
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/8
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1547-1
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgdata/+bug/938812
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671535
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752088
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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