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CVE-2011-1428
Wee Enhanced Environment for Chat (aka WeeChat) 0.3.4 and earlier does not properly verify that the server hostname matches the domain…
Medium5.8EPSS 1.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.1% · top 35% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/index.php?7459 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 46612 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=weechat.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c265cad1c95b84abfd4e8d861f25926ef13b5d91 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20110227 weechat does not properly use gnutls and allow an attacker to bypass certificate verification (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 43543 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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