A vulnerability was found in Starscream up to 2.0.3. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects the function stream of the file WebSocket.swift of the component SSL Pinning Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

WebSocket.swift in Starscream before 2.0.4 allows an SSL Pinning bypass because pinning occurs in the stream function (this is too late; pinning should occur in the initStreamsWithData function).

The bug was discovered 04/21/2017. The weakness was published 04/06/2017 (GitHub Repository). The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2017-5887 since 02/06/2017. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1587.003.

Upgrading to version 2.0.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

Similar entry is available at 99344.

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• 2.0.0
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