CVE-2013-1431

medium

Published 2013-09-23 · 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

6.8

Description

The Wocky module in Telepathy Gabble before 0.16.6 and 0.17.x before 0.17.4, when connecting to a "legacy Jabber server," does not properly enforce the WockyConnector:tls-required flag, which allows remote attackers to bypass TLS verification and perform a man-in-the-middle attacks.

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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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
simon_mcvittie	telepathy_gabble	`{"endIncluding":"0.16.5"}`
simon_mcvittie	telepathy_gabble	`0.16.0`
simon_mcvittie	telepathy_gabble	`0.16.1`
simon_mcvittie	telepathy_gabble	`0.16.2`
simon_mcvittie	telepathy_gabble	`0.16.3`
simon_mcvittie	telepathy_gabble	`0.16.4`
simon_mcvittie	telepathy_gabble	`0.17.0`
simon_mcvittie	telepathy_gabble	`0.17.1`
simon_mcvittie	telepathy_gabble	`0.17.2`
simon_mcvittie	telepathy_gabble	`0.17.3`

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.