Improper Certificate Validation Affecting tigervnc/tigervnc package, versions [,1.11.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.06% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TIGERVNCTIGERVNC-2366364
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Sept 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-26117  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tigervnc/tigervnc to version 1.11.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation. In rfb/CSecurityTLS.cxx and rfb/CSecurityTLS.java in TigerVNC before 1.11.0, viewers mishandle TLS certificate exceptions. They store the certificates as authorities, meaning that the owner of a certificate could impersonate any server after a client had added an exception.

CVSS Base Scores

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