CVE-2020-26117 (GCVE-0-2020-26117)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-09-27 03:30
Modified
2024-08-04 15:49
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.org http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00025.html Broken Link, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00024.html Broken Link, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1176733 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/20dea801e747318525a5859fe4f37c52b05310cb Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/7399eab79a4365434d26494fa1628ce1eb91562b Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/b30f10c681ec87720cff85d490f67098568a9cba Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/f029745f63ac7d22fb91639b2cb5b3ab56134d6e Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/releases/tag/v1.11.0 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00025.html Broken Link, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00024.html Broken Link, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1176733 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/20dea801e747318525a5859fe4f37c52b05310cb Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/7399eab79a4365434d26494fa1628ce1eb91562b Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/b30f10c681ec87720cff85d490f67098568a9cba Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/f029745f63ac7d22fb91639b2cb5b3ab56134d6e Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/releases/tag/v1.11.0 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
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