iphone email client does not validate ssl certificates

2009.09.23

Credit: Bill Borskey

Risk: High

Local: No

Remote: Yes

CVE: CVE-2009-3273

CWE: CWE-310

CVSS Base Score: 7.5/10

Impact Subscore: 6.4/10

Exploitability Subscore: 10/10

Exploit range: Remote

Attack complexity: Low

Authentication: No required

Confidentiality impact: Partial

Integrity impact: Partial

Availability impact: Partial

Info:

iPod/iPhone standard e-mail application does not validate SSL certificates
and is vulnerable to a MITM (man in the middle attack).

Vulnerable: All versions.

Discovered by: William Borskey wborskey (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]

Discussion:

The mail application that ships with the iPod/iPhone does not validate SSL
certificates. A malicious user can use software such as ettercap-ng to sniff
email passwords without the application warning the victim that the
certificate may be invalid.

Exploit:

This flaw can be exploited with ettercap-ng.

References:

http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/53234

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36370

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/506428/100/0/threaded

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