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CVE-2013-0240
Gnome Online Accounts (GOA) 3.4.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and 3.7.x before 3.7.5, does not properly validate SSL certificates when creating…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 28% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Gnome Online Accounts (GOA) 3.4.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and 3.7.x before 3.7.5, does not properly validate SSL certificates when creating accounts such as Windows Live and Facebook accounts, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information such as credentials by sniffing the network.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 28% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-online-accounts/commit/?id=edde7c63326242a60a075341d3fea0be0bc4d80e (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 51976 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-online-accounts/commit/?id=bc10fdb68f75f8be84eb698ada08743b9c7c248f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [gnome-announce-list] 20130304 GNOME Online Accounts 3.6.3 released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-1779-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-online-accounts/commit/?h=gnome-3-6&id=ecad8142e9ac519b9fc74b96dcb5531052bbffe1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 52791 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693214 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894352 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0301 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-0272 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2013-0240)Record last updated .