CVE-2020-26117

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

Publication date:

27/09/2020

Last modified:

16/11/2022

Description

In rfb/CSecurityTLS.cxx and rfb/CSecurityTLS.java in TigerVNC before 1.11.0, viewers mishandle TLS certificate exceptions. They store the certificates as authorities, meaning that the owner of a certificate could impersonate any server after a client had added an exception.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 8.10 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

8.10

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 5.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

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

Base Score 2.0

5.80

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:tigervnc:tigervnc::::::::		1.11.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.2:::::::*

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CVE-2020-26117

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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