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GHSA-QF8X-VQJV-92GR

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-04 18:59 – Updated: 2022-06-02 17:39

Summary

Authentication bypass and denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities in Apple Game Center auth adapter

Details

Impact

Weak validation of the Apple certificate URL in the Apple Game Center authentication adapter allows to bypass authentication and makes the server vulnerable to DoS attacks.

Patches

The vulnerability has been fixed by improving the URL validation and adding additional checks of the resource the URL points to before downloading it.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2022-24901 (GCVE-0-2022-24901)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-04 01:10 – Updated: 2025-04-23 18:31

Title

Authentication bypass and denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities in Apple Game Center auth adapter

Summary

Improper validation of the Apple certificate URL in the Apple Game Center authentication adapter allows attackers to bypass authentication, making the server vulnerable to DoS attacks. The vulnerability has been fixed by improving the URL validation and adding additional checks of the resource the URL points to before downloading it.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-23 15:55 UTC

CWE

CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation
CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7771 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
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Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
parse-community	parse-server	Affected: < 4.10.10 Affected: >= 5.0.0, < 5.2.1

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