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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in $0.99 Kindle Books 6. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component X.509 Certificate Handler. Such manipulation of the argument 099 leads to cryptographic issue. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2014-6750. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in $0.99 Kindle Books 6. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component X.509 Certificate Handler. The manipulation of the argument 099 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 $0.99 Kindle Books (aka com.kindle.books.for99) application 6.0 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 published 09/27/2014 (Website). The advisory is available at docs.google.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-6750 since 09/19/2014. The attack can only be initiated within the local network. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. 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.

Similar entries are available at VDB-71128, VDB-71987, VDB-71956 and VDB-71823. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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