AssoCIateD Postman up to up to 6.3.0 X.509 Certificate Validation HTTPS Request certificate validation
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A vulnerability was found in AssoCIateD Postman up to up to 6.3.0. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component X.509 Certificate Validation. The manipulation as part of a HTTPS Request leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:
An information-disclosure issue was discovered in Postman through 6.3.0. It validates a server's X.509 certificate and presents an error if the certificate is not valid. Unfortunately, the associated HTTPS request data is sent anyway. Only the response is not displayed. Thus, all contained information of the HTTPS request is disclosed to a man-in-the-middle attacker (for example, user credentials).
The bug was discovered 09/21/2018. The weakness was released 09/26/2018 as not defined mailinglist post (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at seclists.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-17215 since 09/19/2018. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1587.003.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 5 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
Product
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Version
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.9VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.9
VulDB Base Score: 3.7
VulDB Temp Score: 3.7
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Exploiting
Class: Certificate validationCWE: CWE-295 / CWE-287
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Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
09/19/2018 🔍09/21/2018 🔍
09/26/2018 🔍
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09/27/2018 🔍
03/27/2020 🔍
Sources
Advisory: seclists.orgStatus: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2018-17215 (🔍)
Entry
Created: 09/27/2018 09:10Updated: 03/27/2020 09:46
Changes: 09/27/2018 09:10 (59), 03/27/2020 09:46 (1)
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