CVE-2017-5887 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

WebSocket.swift in Starscream before 2.0.4 allows an SSL Pinning bypass because pinning occurs in the stream function (this is too late; pinning should occur in the initStreamsWithData function).

Published: 2017-04-06

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:starscream_project:starscream:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-14962	WebSocket.swift in Starscream before 2.0.4 allows an SSL Pinning bypass because pinning occurs in the stream function (this is too late; pinning should occur in the initStreamsWithData function).

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00224.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2017/Apr/67
https://github.com/daltoniam/Starscream/commit/dbeb1190b8dcbff4f0b797f9e9d9b9b864d1f0d6
https://github.com/daltoniam/Starscream/releases/tag/2.0.4

History

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Subscriptions

Starscream Project Starscream

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-04-06T14:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:11:48.884Z

Reserved: 2017-02-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-5887

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-04-06T14:59:00.240

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-5887

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-295

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