Missing Authentication for Critical Function Affecting tinc package, versions <1.0.35-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.95% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-TINC-5697895
  • published9 Oct 2018
  • disclosed10 Oct 2018

Introduced: 9 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-16758  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-306  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 tinc to version 1.0.35-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tinc package and not the tinc package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

Missing message authentication in the meta-protocol in Tinc VPN version 1.0.34 and earlier allows a man-in-the-middle attack to disable the encryption of VPN packets.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1