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Insecure Default Affecting afnetworking Open this link in a new tab package, versions <2.5.3

0.0
medium

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • User Interaction

    Required

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  • snyk-id

    SNYK-COCOAPODS-AFNETWORKING-471246

  • published

    2 Oct 2019

  • disclosed

    27 Mar 2015

  • credit

    Unknown

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Introduced: 27 Mar 2015

CVE-2015-3996 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-1188 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade AFNetworking to version 2.5.3 or higher.

Overview

AFNetworking is a delightful iOS and OS X networking framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Default. The default AFSecurityPolicy.validatesDomainName configuration for AFSSLPinningModeNone in the AFNetworking framework disables verification of a server hostname against the domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.