CVE-2021-39361

MEDIUM 5.9CVE-2021-39361 · Published 22/08/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-39361 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.9) vulnerability affecting evolution-rss (gnome).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.56%, higher than 46.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
evolution-rss gnome	`≤ 0.3.96`	No fix yet

Description

In GNOME evolution-rss through 0.3.96, network-soup.c does not enable TLS certificate verification on the SoupSessionSync objects it creates, leaving users vulnerable to network MITM attacks. NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2016-20011.

References

blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2021/05/25/reminder-soupsessionsync-and-soupsessionasync-default-to-no-tls-certificate-verification · Vendor Advisory
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-rss/-/issues/11 · Issue Tracking

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