CVE-2013-7449

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-11-19
CWE:
CWE-297
Bugzilla:
1081839: CVE-2013-7449 xchat/hexchat: does not verify the server hostname matches the domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field in X.509 certificates

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The ssl_do_connect function in common/server.c in HexChat before 2.10.2, XChat, and XChat-GNOME does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

Find out more about CVE-2013-7449 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 xchat Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 xchat Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xchat Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Nicholas Bebout for reporting this issue.

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