Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-3273 - Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in Apple Iphone OS

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
apple
CWE-310
NVD
Published: 2009-09-21
Updated: 2019-09-26

Summary

iPhone Mail in Apple iPhone OS, and iPhone OS for iPod touch, does not validate X.509 certificates, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL e-mail servers via a crafted certificate.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Apple
48

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Signature Spoofing by Key Recreation
    An attacker obtains an authoritative or reputable signer's private signature key by exploiting a cryptographic weakness in the signature algorithm or pseudorandom number generation and then uses this key to forge signatures from the original signer to mislead a victim into performing actions that benefit the attacker.

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