Improper Enforcement of Message Integrity During Transmission in a Communication Channel Affecting pidgin-debuginfo package, versions <0:2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.57% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-PIDGINDEBUGINFO-5789248
  • published20 Jul 2023
  • disclosed2 Jun 2022

Introduced: 2 Jun 2022

CVE-2022-26491  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-924  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 pidgin-debuginfo to version 0:2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2023-2115.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pidgin-debuginfo package and not the pidgin-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Pidgin before 2.14.9. A remote attacker who can spoof DNS responses can redirect a client connection to a malicious server. The client will perform TLS certificate verification of the malicious domain name instead of the original XMPP service domain, allowing the attacker to take over control over the XMPP connection and to obtain user credentials and all communication content. This is similar to CVE-2022-24968.

CVSS Base Scores

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