CVE-2022-28352 - WeeChat (aka Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) 3.2 to 3.4 before 3.4.1 does not properly verify the TLS certificate of the server, after certain GnuTLS options are changed, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof a TLS chat server via an arbitrary certificate

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WeeChat (aka Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) 3.2 to 3.4 before 3.4.1 does not properly verify the TLS certificate of the server, after certain GnuTLS options are changed, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof a TLS chat server via an arbitrary certificate

Published Apr 2, 2022

4.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.43%

Description

WeeChat (aka Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat) 3.2 to 3.4 before 3.4.1 does not properly verify the TLS certificate of the server, after certain GnuTLS options are changed, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof a TLS chat server via an arbitrary certificate. NOTE: this only affects situations where weechat.network.gnutls_ca_system or weechat.network.gnutls_ca_user is changed without a WeeChat restart.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-295

Improper Certificate Validation

References (3)

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-32802
Advisory
https://github.com/weechat/weechat/issues/1763
x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingMitigationThird Party Advisory
https://weechat.org/doc/security/WSA-2022-1/
x_refsource_MISCExploitVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2022-32802		Advisory
https://github.com/weechat/weechat/issues/1763		x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingMitigationThird Party Advisory
https://weechat.org/doc/security/WSA-2022-1/		x_refsource_MISCExploitVendor Advisory