VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-4511

medium
Published 2012-10-22 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.8

Description

services/flickr/flickr.c in libsocialweb before 0.25.21 automatically connects to Flickr when no Flickr account is set, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnomelibsocialweb{"endIncluding":"0.25.20"}
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.0
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.1
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.2
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.3
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.4
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.5
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.6
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.7
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.8
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.9
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.10
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.11
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.12
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.13
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.14
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.15
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.16
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.17
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.18
gnomelibsocialweb0.25.19

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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