Medium severity · published Feb 11, 2022
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…
5.9
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 45% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
XM
Xmpp · Mellium
0.18.0 before 0.21.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24968
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-24968
Vendor Advisory
https://mellium.im/cve/cve-2022-24968/
Product
https://mellium.im/xmpp/
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