vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-20011: Improper Certificate Validation

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 25, 2021
Added
Oct 1, 2024
Modified
Aug 8, 2025

Description

libgrss through 0.7.0 fails to perform TLS certificate verification when downloading feeds, allowing remote attackers to manipulate the contents of feeds without detection. This occurs because of the default behavior of SoupSessionSync.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-libgrss
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