PT-2014-6719 · Com.Wbooksforsale · Buy Books

Published 2014-09-09 · Updated 2014-09-12 · CVE-2014-5734

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The Buy Books (aka com.wBooksForSale) application version 0.1

Description The issue concerns the application's failure to verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

Recommendations For version 0.1, update the application to properly verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the application's access to sensitive information until a proper fix is implemented.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-310

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-5734

Affected Products

Buy Books

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-5734 · Security Note
• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1t5GXwjw82SyunALVJb2w0zi3FoLRIkfGPc7AMjRF0r4/edit?usp=sharing · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/741161 · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/582497 · Note