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Red Hat: CVE-2020-26117: CVE-2020-26117 tigervnc: certificate exceptions stored as authorities (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 27, 2020
Added
May 21, 2021
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

In rfb/CSecurityTLS.cxx and rfb/CSecurityTLS.java in TigerVNC before 1.11.0, viewers mishandle TLS certificate exceptions. They store the certificates as authorities, meaning that the owner of a certificate could impersonate any server after a client had added an exception.

Solutions

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