CVE-2017-5919 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The 21st Century Insurance app 10.0.0 for iOS does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

Published: 2017-05-05

Score: 5.9 Medium

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:21st_century_insurance:21st_century_insurance:*:*:*:*:*:iphone_os:*:*

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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-2017-14994	The 21st Century Insurance app 10.0.0 for iOS does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00121.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://medium.com/%40chronic_9612/follow-up-76-popular-apps-confirmed-vulnerable-to-silent-interception-of-tls-protected-data-64185035029f

History

No history.

Subscriptions

21st Century Insurance 21st Century Insurance

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-05-05T07:04:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:11:48.890Z

Reserved: 2017-02-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-5919

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-05-05T07:29:01.123

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

Link: CVE-2017-5919

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-295

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