Improper Access Control Affecting libimobiledevice package, versions >=0.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-COCOAPODS-LIBIMOBILEDEVICE-470931
  • published2 Oct 2019
  • disclosed13 Jun 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-5104  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libimobiledevice.

Overview

libimobiledevice is a library to communicate with services of Apple iOS devices using native protocols.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control libimobiledeviceis vulnerable to exposure of iOS decive to an attacker placed on the local network. The attack is possible because of a flaw in the socket_create function in common/socket.c in libimobiledevice and libusbmuxd, leading to the bypass of intended access restrictions. Therefore, the attacker can communicate with services on iOS devices by connecting to an IPv4 TCP socket.

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