Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-7038 - Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in AL Jazeera Project AL Jazeera 6.0

047910
CVSS 5.4 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL

Summary

The Al Jazeera (aka com.Al.Jazeera.net) application 6.0 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Al_Jazeera_Project
1

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.