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CVE-2014-3694

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues
Publication date:
29/10/2014
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

The (1) bundled GnuTLS SSL/TLS plugin and the (2) bundled OpenSSL SSL/TLS plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 do not properly consider the Basic Constraints extension during verification of X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.40 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
6.40
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.10.9 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.10.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.10.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.10.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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