CVE-2012-1177

MEDIUM 5.1CVE-2012-1177 · Published 26/08/2012 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-1177 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.1) vulnerability affecting libgdata (gnome).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.9%, higher than 79.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
libgdata gnome	`≤ 0.10.1≤ 0.11.0`	No fix yet

Description

libgdata before 0.10.2 and 0.11.x before 0.11.1 does not validate SSL certificates, which allows remote attackers to obtain user names and passwords via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack with a spoofed certificate.

References

git.gnome.org/browse/libgdata/commit
git.gnome.org/browse/libgdata/commit
secunia.com/advisories/50432
debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2482
mandriva.com/security/advisories
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/1
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/3
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/8
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1547-1
bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgdata/+bug/938812
bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi

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