Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-1799 - Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN
gnome
canonical
CWE-310
nessus
NVD
Published: 2013-04-02
Updated: 2023-11-07

Summary

Gnome Online Accounts (GOA) 3.6.x before 3.6.3 and 3.7.x before 3.7.91, does not properly validate SSL certificates when creating accounts for providers who use the libsoup library, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information such as credentials by sniffing the network. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-0240.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Gnome
8
OS
Canonical
3

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Signature Spoofing by Key Recreation
    An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by exploiting a cryptographic weakness in the signature algorithm or pseudorandom number generation and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.

Nessus

NASL familyUbuntu Local Security Checks
NASL idUBUNTU_USN-1779-1.NASL
descriptionIt was discovered that GNOME Online Accounts did not properly check SSL certificates when configuring online accounts. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to alter or compromise credentials and confidential information. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id65685
published2013-03-26
reporterUbuntu Security Notice (C) 2013-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/65685
titleUbuntu 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : gnome-online-accounts vulnerability (USN-1779-1)
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1779-1. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See 
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered 
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(65685);
  script_version("1.8");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/09/19 12:54:29");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2013-0240", "CVE-2013-1799");
  script_bugtraq_id(57753, 58787);
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"1779-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : gnome-online-accounts vulnerability (USN-1779-1)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related
patches."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"It was discovered that GNOME Online Accounts did not properly check
SSL certificates when configuring online accounts. If a remote
attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw
could be exploited to alter or compromise credentials and confidential
information.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://usn.ubuntu.com/1779-1/"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:
"Update the affected gnome-online-accounts and / or libgoa-1.0-0
packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnome-online-accounts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgoa-1.0-0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2013/04/01");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/03/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/03/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2013-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("ubuntu.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");

if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled") ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/Ubuntu/release");
if ( isnull(release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu");
release = chomp(release);
if (! preg(pattern:"^(11\.10|12\.04|12\.10)$", string:release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Ubuntu 11.10 / 12.04 / 12.10", "Ubuntu " + release);
if ( ! get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l") ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Ubuntu", cpu);

flag = 0;

if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.10", pkgname:"gnome-online-accounts", pkgver:"3.2.1-0ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"11.10", pkgname:"libgoa-1.0-0", pkgver:"3.2.1-0ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.04", pkgname:"gnome-online-accounts", pkgver:"3.4.0-0ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.04", pkgname:"libgoa-1.0-0", pkgver:"3.4.0-0ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.10", pkgname:"gnome-online-accounts", pkgver:"3.6.0-0ubuntu1.1")) flag++;
if (ubuntu_check(osver:"12.10", pkgname:"libgoa-1.0-0", pkgver:"3.6.0-0ubuntu1.1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
    extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "gnome-online-accounts / libgoa-1.0-0");
}

References