CVE-2016-1000030

CVSS V2 High 7.5 CVSS V3 Critical 9.8
Description
Pidgin version <2.11.0 contains a vulnerability in X.509 Certificates imports specifically due to improper check of return values from gnutls_x509_crt_init() and gnutls_x509_crt_import() that can result in code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via custom X.509 certificate from another client. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.11.0.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-1000030
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2018-09-05T17:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2018-11-14T19:34:45
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-295 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/295.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.11.0
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 9.8
  • Base Severity
  • CRITICAL
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.suse.com/pt-br/security/cve/CVE-2016-1000030/ Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38 Third Party Advisory
https://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=91 Vendor Advisory
https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/commits/d6fc1ce76ffe Patch Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1000030 Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1000030
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1000030
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:53:09 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 11:47:31 2018-09-05T17:29Z 2018-09-05T17:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 11:47:31 2018-11-14T19:34:45 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 11:47:31 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated