PT-2017-16738 · Unknown · Starscream

Giuliano Galea + 1 · Published 2017-04-06 · Updated 2017-04-26 · CVE-2017-5887

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Starscream versions prior to 2.0.4

Description The issue concerns an SSL Pinning bypass in the WebSocket.swift file. This bypass occurs because the pinning is done in the stream function, which is too late, as it should be done in the initStreamsWithData function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.0.4, update to version 2.0.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Improper Certificate Validation

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-295

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-5887

Affected Products

Starscream

References · 5

• https://github.com/daltoniam/Starscream/commit/dbeb1190b8dcbff4f0b797f9e9d9b9b864d1f0d6 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5887 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5887 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/daltoniam/Starscream/releases/tag/2.0.4 · Note
• http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/Apr/67 · Note