Bug 1291361 (CVE-2016-1000033) - CVE-2016-1000033 shotwell: TLS certificates are not validated when publishing photos to external services
Summary: CVE-2016-1000033 shotwell: TLS certificates are not validated when publishing...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-1000033
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1291362
Blocks: 1291363
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-12-14 16:55 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:37 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: shotwell 0.23.0
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
It was discovered that shotwell did not validate TLS certificates when publishing photos to online service. A man-in-the-middle attacker could intercept requests and provide crafted responses, obtaining users' photos and potentially sensitive data.
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Last Closed: 2016-09-09 01:39:37 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2015-12-14 16:55:43 UTC 
It was discovered that shotwell did not validate TLS certificates when publishing photos and logging into Facebook, Flickr, etc.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754488

Upstream patches can be found here:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751709

CVE request:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/433
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-12-14 16:56:04 UTC 
Created shotwell tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1291362]
Comment 2 Doran Moppert 2016-09-08 06:58:23 UTC 
DWF Assignment:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754488#c12
Comment 3 Doran Moppert 2016-09-09 01:37:19 UTC 
Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security
impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future
updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity
Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
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