Executive Summary

Summary
Title Ignite Realtime Smack XMPP API contains multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name VU#489228 First vendor Publication 2014-04-29
Vendor VU-CERT Last vendor Modification 2014-04-29
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision M

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Vulnerability Note VU#489228

Ignite Realtime Smack XMPP API contains multiple vulnerabilities

Original Release date: 29 Apr 2014 | Last revised: 29 Apr 2014

Overview

Ignite Realtime's Smack XMPP API ServerTrustManger trusts unauthorized SSL certificates (CWE-358) and IQ requests do not verify the from attribute allowing anyone to spoof IQ responses. (CWE-345)

Description

CWE-358: Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard - CVE-2014-0363

The implementation of ServerTrustManger in Smack API version 3.4.1, and possibly earlier versions, does not properly verify the basicConstraints and nameConstraints of a certificate within a certificate chain.

CWE-345: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity - CVE-2014-0364
The implementation of ParseRoster in Smack API version 3.4.1, and possibly earlier versions, does not properly verify the from attribute for roster queries.

The CVSS score below is for CVE-2014-0363.

Impact

A remote unauthenticated attacker may be able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, add roster entries or spoof IQ responses.

Solution

Apply an Update

Smack API version 4.0.0 addresses these vulnerabilities. At the time of publication only a release candidate for version 4.0.0 was available.

Vendor Information (Learn More)

VendorStatusDate NotifiedDate Updated
Ignite RealtimeAffected-29 Apr 2014
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CVSS Metrics (Learn More)

GroupScoreVector
Base5.7AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Temporal4.5E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C
Environmental5.5CDP:LM/TD:M/CR:H/IR:L/AR:L

References

  • http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/smack/
  • http://issues.igniterealtime.org/browse/SMACK-410
  • http://issues.igniterealtime.org/browse/SMACK-533
  • http://issues.igniterealtime.org/browse/SMACK-538
  • https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/358.html
  • https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/345.html

Credit

Thanks to Ryan Sleevi for identifying the vulnerability in ServerTrustManager and Thijs Alkemade for identifying the IQ validation vulnerability and Florian Schmaus for reporting this vulnerability.

This document was written by Jared Allar.

Other Information

  • CVE IDs:CVE-2014-0363CVE-2014-0364
  • Date Public:29 Apr 2014
  • Date First Published:29 Apr 2014
  • Date Last Updated:29 Apr 2014
  • Document Revision:15

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Original Source

Url : http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/489228

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
50 % CWE-295 Certificate Issues

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

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File : fedora_2014-16312.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
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File : fedora_2014-16383.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-05-01 13:28:38
  • Multiple Updates
2014-04-30 17:22:22
  • Multiple Updates
2014-04-29 17:18:12
  • First insertion