CVE-2015-3996 (GCVE-0-2015-3996)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-10-27 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:04
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Summary
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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