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Weechat -- Possible man-in-the-middle attack in TLS connection to servers

Affected packages
weechat < 3.4.1

Details

VuXML ID 3ba1ca94-a563-11ec-8be6-d4c9ef517024
Discovery 2022-03-13
Entry 2022-03-16

The Weechat project reports:

After changing the options weechat.network.gnutls_ca_system or weechat.network.gnutls_ca_user, the TLS verification function is lost. Consequently, any connection to a server with TLS is made without verifying the certificate, which could lead to a man-in-the-middle attack. Connection to IRC servers with TLS is affected, as well as any connection a server made by a plugin or a script using the function hook_connect.

References

URL https://weechat.org/doc/security/WSA-2022-1/