Explained — What's Up With the WhatsApp 'Backdoor' Story?

What is a backdoor? By definition: "Backdoor is a feature or defect of a computer system that allows surreptitious unauthorized access to data, " either the backdoor is in encryption algorithm, a server or in an implementation, and doesn't matter whether it has previously been used or not...

CVE-2016-10138

An issue was discovered on BLU Advance 5.0 and BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The com.adups.fota.sysoper app is installed as a system app and cannot be disabled by the user. In the com.adups.fota.sysoper app's AndroidManifest.xml file, it sets the android:sharedUserId attribute t...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered on BLU Advance 5.0 and BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The com.adups.fota.sysoper app is installed as a system app and cannot be disabled by the user. In the com.adups.fota.sysoper app's AndroidManifest.xml file, it sets the android:sharedUserId attribute t...

CVE-2016-10138

An issue was discovered on BLU Advance 5.0 and BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The com.adups.fota.sysoper app is installed as a system app and cannot be disabled by the user. In the com.adups.fota.sysoper app's AndroidManifest.xml file, it sets the android:sharedUserId attribute t...

CVE-2016-10138

CVE-2016-10138 affects BLU Advance 5.0 and BLU R1 HD running Shanghai Adups software. The com.adups.fota.sysoper app is installed as a system app and sets android:sharedUserId to android.uid.system, causing it to run as the system user. It exposes an exported broadcast receiver (com.adups.fota.sy...

Man In The Middle (MitM)

rollbar is vulnerable to man in the middle MitM attacks. The library does not validate if the endpoint it's communicating with has a valid SSL certificate or not, potentially allowing a malicious user to to conduct a man in the middle attack...

CVE-2016-9015

CVE-2016-9015 affects Python urllib3 versions 1.17 and 1.18 when using PyOpenSSL with OpenSSL 1.1.0; in such configurations TLS certificate validation can be bypassed, enabling MITM and information leakage. The issue is considered low impact due to the very specific configuration. remediation fro...

Man In The Middle (mitm)

json-schema is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle MitM attacks. The rubgems source is deprecated because HTTP requests are insecure. A malicious user can potentially compromise the source to conduct MitM attacks...

ThreatMetrix SDK for iOS fails to validate SSL certificates

Overview On the iOS platform, the ThreatMetrix SDK versions prior to 3.2 fail to validate SSL certificates provided by HTTPS connections, which may allow an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle MITM attack. Description ThreatMetrix is a security library for mobile applications, which aims to...

CVE-2016-10125

D-Link DGS-1100 devices with Rev.B firmware 1.01.018 have a hardcoded SSL private key, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof devices by hijacking an HTTPS session...

Man In The Middle (MitM)

adamvr-geoip-lite is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle MitM attacks via downloading geoip resources over HTTP. This impacts the integrity and availability of this geoip data that may alter the decisions made by an application using this data...

Man In The Middle (MitM)

arcanist is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle MitM attacks via downloading resources over HTTP. It may be possible to cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the requested resources with an attacker controlled copy if the attacker is on the network or positioned in between the user and the...

Man-in-the-Middle (MitM)

react-native-baidu-voice-synthesizer is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. The library downloads binaries via HTTP, potentially causing a remote code execution RCE vulnerability by swapping out the requested binary with an attacker controlled binary if the attacker is on the network or...

CURL-CVE-2016-9952 Win CE Schannel cert wildcard matches too much

curl's TLS server certificate checks are flawed on Windows CE. This vulnerability occurs in the verify certificate function when comparing a wildcard certificate name as returned by the Windows API function CertGetNameString to the hostname used to make the connection to the server. The...

Win CE Schannel cert wildcard matches too much

curl's TLS server certificate checks are flawed on Windows CE. This vulnerability occurs in the verify certificate function when comparing a wildcard certificate name as returned by the Windows API function CertGetNameString to the hostname used to make the connection to the server. The...

Man In The Middle (MitM)

Smack XMPP library is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle MitM attacks. This is because the security of the TLS connection is not always enforced, making it vulnerable to MitM. By stripping the "starttls" feature from the server response with a man-in-the-middle tool, an attacker can force the client...

Man In The Middle (MitM)

nodewebkit is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle MitM attacks. This is because the library downloads zipped resources via HTTP, allowing MitM attacks. It may also cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the requested zip file with an attacker controlled zip file if the attacker is on the...

Man In The Middle (MitM)

libxl is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle MitM attacks. This is because the library downloads zipped resources via HTTP, allowing MitM attacks. It may also cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the zip file with an attacker controlled zip file if the attacker is on the network or...

Man In The Middle (MitM)

macaca-chromedriver is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle MitM attacks. This is because the library downloads binary resources via HTTP, allowing MitM attacks. It may also cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the requested binary with an attacker controlled binary if the attacker is on th...

Man In The Middle (MitM)

nw is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle MitM attacks. This is because the library downloads zipped resources via HTTP, allowing MitM attacks. It may also cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the requested zip file with an attacker controlled zip file if the attacker is on the network or...