Mintegral MintegralAdSDK URL information disclosure

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Mintegral MintegralAdSDK. Affected is an unknown function of the component URL Handler. This manipulation causes information disclosure. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2020-7705. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Mintegral MintegralAdSDK (affected version not known). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the component URL Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

This affects the package MintegralAdSDK from 0.0.0. The SDK distributed by the company contains malicious functionality that tracks any URL opened by the app and reports it back to the company, along with performing advertisement attribution fraud. Mintegral can remotely activate hooks on the UIApplication, openURL, SKStoreProductViewController, loadProductWithParameters and NSURLProtocol methods along with anti-debug and proxy detection protection. If those hooks are active MintegralAdSDK sends obfuscated data about every opened URL in an application to their servers. Note that the malicious functionality is enabled even if the SDK was not enabled to serve ads.

The weakness was published 08/24/2020 (Website). The advisory is shared at snyk.io. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2020-7705 since 01/21/2020. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

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

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• Mintegral

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• MintegralAdSDK

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