A vulnerability was found in Westpac Mobile Banking 5.21 (Banking Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component X.509 Certificate Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cryptographic issues vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-310. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Westpac Mobile Banking (aka org.westpac.bank) application 5.21 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

The weakness was released 09/26/2014 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is available at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-6732 since 09/19/2014. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1600 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-71433, VDB-71432, VDB-71431 and VDB-71430. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Westpac

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• Mobile Banking

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• 5.21

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