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A vulnerability was found in FIAT Forum 3.8.41 and classified as critical. This impacts an unknown function of the component X.509 Certificate Handler. Such manipulation leads to cryptographic issue. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2014-6643. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in FIAT Forum 3.8.41 (Forum Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component X.509 Certificate Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cryptographic issue vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-310. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The FIAT Forum (aka com.tapatalk.fiatforumcom) application 3.8.41 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 disclosed 09/22/2014 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is shared for download at kb.cert.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-6643 since 09/19/2014. The attack needs to be initiated within the local network. 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 T1600.

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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• Forum Software

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• FIAT Forum

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• 3.8.41

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