VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-1177

medium
Published 2012-08-26 · Modified 2026-04-29
💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.1

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed0.10.2-1
debian debianbullseyefixed0.10.2-1
debian debiantrixiefixed0.10.2-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnomelibgdata{"endIncluding":"0.10.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.