CVE-2016-2166

The (1) proton.reactor.Connector, (2) proton.reactor.Container, and (3) proton.utils.BlockingConnection classes in Apache Qpid Proton before 0.12.1 improperly use an unencrypted connection for an amqps URI scheme when SSL support is unavailable, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information or modify data via unspecified vectors.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2016-04-12

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-200

Affected products

• Qpid Proton (Apache)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/182414.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/136403/Apache-Qpid-Proton-0.12.0-SSL-Failure.html
• http://qpid.apache.org/releases/qpid-proton-0.12.1/release-notes.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537864/100/0/threaded
• https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=qpid-proton.git%3Bh=a058585
• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-1157
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/914424e4d798a340f523b6169aaf39b626971d9bb00fcdeb1d5d6c0d%40%3Ccommits.qpid.apache.…