Missing Authentication for Critical Function Affecting tinc package, versions [,1.0.35)[1.1-pre1,1.1-pre17)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.95% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TINC-2370076
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Oct 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Oct 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade tinc to version 1.0.35, 1.1-pre17 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authentication for Critical Function. 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.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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