Tootdon for Mastodon up to 3.4.1 on Android X.509 Certificate Validation Crafted Certificate Man-in-the-Middle weak authentication

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Tootdon for Mastodon up to 3.4.1 on Android (Android App Software). Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component X.509 Certificate Validation. The manipulation as part of a Crafted Certificate leads to a weak authentication vulnerability (Man-in-the-Middle). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-300. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was disclosed 07/05/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-5961 since 01/10/2019. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 07/06/2019).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Android App Software

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• Tootdon for Mastodon

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.6

VulDB Base Score: 5.6
VulDB Temp Score: 5.6
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Class: Weak authentication / Man-in-the-Middle (CWE-300)
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Remediation: 🔍Recommended: no mitigation known

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01/10/2019 CVE assigned
07/05/2019 +176 days Advisory disclosed
07/06/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
07/06/2019 +0 days VulDB last update
CVE: CVE-2019-5961 (🔒)
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20130704Created: 07/06/2019 10:19 AM
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