SSL Certificate Bypass Affecting starscream package, versions <2.0.4


0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Integrity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.18% (55th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-COCOAPODS-STARSCREAM-472099
  • published 9 Oct 2019
  • disclosed 6 Apr 2017
  • credit Unknown

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.