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Unscored CVE-2015-3996 EUVD-2015-4026GHSA-v7j2-r9pg-jmfv

The default AFSecurityPolicy.validatesDomainName configuration for AFSSLPinningModeNone in the AFNetworking framework before 2.5.3, as used…

Published Oct 27, 2015 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

The default AFSecurityPolicy.validatesDomainName configuration for AFSSLPinningModeNone in the AFNetworking framework before 2.5.3, as used in the ownCloud iOS Library, disables verification of a server hostname against the domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

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