CVE-2013-1799
Gnome Online Accounts (GOA) 3.6.x before 3.6.3 and 3.7.x before 3.7.91, does not properly validate SSL certificates when creating accounts for providers who use the libsoup library, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information such as credentials by sniffing the network. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0240.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-310
- EPSS score
- 1.0% (64th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2013-1823)
- Published
- April 2, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2013-1823 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- gnome / gnome online accounts
- gnome / gnome online accounts
- gnome / gnome online accounts
- gnome / gnome online accounts
- gnome / gnome online accounts
- gnome / gnome online accounts
- gnome / gnome online accounts
- gnome / gnome online accounts
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-02/msg00046.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51976(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52791(Vendor Advisory)
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1779-1
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693214
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695106
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-online-accounts/commit/?id=9cf4bc0ced2c53bcdd36922caa65afc8a167bbd8
- https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2013-March/msg00007.html
- https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2013-March/msg00020.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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