CVE-2007-6746

medium

Published 2013-05-21 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.8

Description

telepathy-idle before 0.1.15 does not verify (1) that the issuer is a trusted CA, (2) that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN), or (3) the expiration date of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Ubuntu Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.04	Affected	—
12.10	Affected	—
12.04	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.1.15-1`
sid	Fixed	`0.1.15-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.1.15-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.1.15-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
canonical	telepathy-idle	`{"endIncluding":"0.1.14.1"}`
canonical	telepathy-idle	`0.1.10.1`
canonical	telepathy-idle	`0.1.11.1`
canonical	telepathy-idle	`0.1.11.2`
canonical	telepathy-idle	`0.1.12.1`
canonical	telepathy-idle	`0.1.14`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.