Security Features The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package afnetworking  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-COCOAPODS-AFNETWORKING-471270
  • published20 Nov 2019
  • disclosed27 Mar 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Mar 2015

CVE-2015-3996  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-254  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

AFNetworking is a delightful iOS and OS X networking framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Security Features. It allows attackers to spoof SSL servers due to the default value for AFSecurityPolicy.validatesDomainName is not set to Yes, so it does not perform verification of a server hostname against the domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) of the X.509 certificate.