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Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (aka WeeChat) 0.3.4 and earlier does not properly verify that the server hostname matches the domain name of the subject of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an SSL chat server via an arbitrary certificate, related to incorrect use of the GnuTLS API

Published Mar 16, 2011

Description

Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (aka WeeChat) 0.3.4 and earlier does not properly verify that the server hostname matches the domain name of the subject of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof an SSL chat server via an arbitrary certificate, related to incorrect use of the GnuTLS API.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Mar 16, 2011
Updated Sep 17, 2024
Reserved Mar 16, 2011
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a