SSL Certificate Bypass Affecting starscream package, versions <2.0.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-COCOAPODS-STARSCREAM-472099
  • published9 Oct 2019
  • disclosed6 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-7192  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Starscream to version 2.0.4 or higher.

Overview

Starscream is a conforming WebSocket (RFC 6455) client library in Swift.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to SSL Certificate Bypass. Allows an SSL Pinning bypass because of incorrect management of the certValidated variable (it can be set to true but cannot be set to false). If an attacker in a man-in-the-middle position is able to reset an established TCP connection between the client and server, the subsequent re-connection will not pin the SSL certificate, allowing traffic interception.

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