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CVE Request: Smack: TLS SecurityMode.required not always enforced, leading to striptls attack
From: Sylvain SARMEJEANNE <sylvain.sarmejeanne.ml () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 22:00:12 +0100
Hello, I reported a vulnerability in the Smack XMPP library where the security of the TLS connection is not always enforced. By stripping the "starttls" feature from the server response with a man-in-the-middle tool, an attacker can force the client to authenticate in clear text even if the "SecurityMode.required" TLS setting has been set. This is a race condition issue so the attack will work after a few tries. The vulnerability affects at least all 4.1.x versions and is fixed in Smack 4.1.9. References: https://community.igniterealtime.org/blogs/ignite/2016/11/22/smack- security-advisory-2016-11-22 https://issues.igniterealtime.org/browse/SMACK-739 https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack/commit/ a9d5cd4a611f47123f9561bc5a81a4555fe7cb04 https://github.com/igniterealtime/Smack/commit/ 059ee99ba0d5ff7758829acf5a9aeede09ec820b Could you assign a CVE for this? Thanks! Sylvain
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