CVE-2020-26117
Publication date 27 September 2020
Last updated 24 July 2024
Ubuntu priority
Cvss 3 Severity Score
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.
Status
Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
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tigervnc | 24.10 oracular |
Not affected
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24.04 LTS noble |
Not affected
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22.04 LTS jammy |
Not affected
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20.04 LTS focal |
Fixed 1.10.1+dfsg-3ubuntu0.20.04.1+esm1
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18.04 LTS bionic |
Needs evaluation
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16.04 LTS xenial | Not in release | |
14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
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Parameter | Value |
---|---|
Base score | 8.1 · High |
Attack vector | Network |
Attack complexity | Low |
Privileges required | None |
User interaction | Required |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | High |
Integrity impact | High |
Availability impact | None |
Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
References
Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)
- USN-5965-1
- TigerVNC vulnerability
- 21 March 2023
Other references
- https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1176733
- https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/20dea801e747318525a5859fe4f37c52b05310cb (v1.11.0)
- https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/7399eab79a4365434d26494fa1628ce1eb91562b (v1.11.0)
- https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/b30f10c681ec87720cff85d490f67098568a9cba (master)
- https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/f029745f63ac7d22fb91639b2cb5b3ab56134d6e (master)
- https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/20dea801e747318525a5859fe4f37c52b05310cb
- https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/7399eab79a4365434d26494fa1628ce1eb91562b
- https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/b30f10c681ec87720cff85d490f67098568a9cba
- https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/f029745f63ac7d22fb91639b2cb5b3ab56134d6e
- https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/releases/tag/v1.11.0
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-26117