CVE-2013-1431: Simon Mcvittie Telepathy Gabble

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Wocky module in Telepathy Gabble before 0.16.6 and 0.17.x before 0.17.4, when connecting to a "legacy Jabber server," does not properly enforce the WockyConnector:tls-required flag, which allows remote attackers to bypass TLS verification and perform a man-in-the-middle attacks.

Affected products

• Simon Mcvittie Telepathy Gabble: up to and including 0.16.5; version 0.16.0 only; version 0.16.1 only; version 0.16.2 only; version 0.16.3 only; version 0.16.4 only; …

Published 2013-09-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.