VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2022-24968
In Mellium mellium.im/xmpp through 0.21.0, an attacker capable of spoofing DNS TXT records can redirect a WebSocket connection request to a server under their control without causing TLS certificate verification to fail.
MEDIUM 5.9EPSS 0.54%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.54%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
In Mellium mellium.im/xmpp through 0.21.0, an attacker capable of spoofing DNS TXT records can redirect a WebSocket connection request to a server under their control without causing TLS certificate verification to fail. This occurs because the wrong host name is selected during this verification.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.54% probability · 44th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-295
- Affected
- mellium/xmpp
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://mellium.im/cve/cve-2022-24968/Vendor Advisory
- https://mellium.im/xmpp/Product, Vendor Advisory
- https://mellium.im/cve/cve-2022-24968/Vendor Advisory
- https://mellium.im/xmpp/Product, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.