Bug 1973440 (CVE-2021-34825)

Summary:	CVE-2021-34825 quassel: when --require-ssl is enabled and there is no certificate to load it will accept plaintext connections
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	rosser.bjr, s
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-06-17 20:11:44 UTC

Quassel through 0.13.1, when --require-ssl is enabled, launches without SSL or TLS support if a usable X.509 certificate is not found on the local system.

Reference:
https://github.com/quassel/quassel/pull/581

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-06-17 20:12:03 UTC

Created quassel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1973442]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1973441]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-06-17 21:04:05 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.