Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-0818 - 7PK - Security Features vulnerability in Google Android
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
The caching functionality in the TrustManagerImpl class in TrustManagerImpl.java in Conscrypt in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49H, and 6.x before 2016-03-01 mishandles the distinction between an intermediate CA and a trusted root CA, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers by leveraging access to an intermediate CA to issue a certificate, aka internal bug 26232830.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-03-01.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84245
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/conscrypt/+/4c9f9c2201116acf790fca25af43995d29980ee0
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/conscrypt/+/c4ab1b959280413fb11bf4fd7f6b4c2ba38bd779