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CVE-2019-16263

Published: Oct 7, 2019

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The Twitter Kit framework through 3.4.2 for iOS does not properly validate the api.twitter.com SSL certificate. Although the certificate chain must contain one of a set of pinned certificates, there are certain implementation errors such as a lack of hostname verification. NOTE: this is an end-of-life product.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/twitter-archive/twitter-kit-ios/blob/ac42e1351a66afa5ff7718d04d64a905dafe1f41/TwitterCore/TwitterCore/Networking/Security/TWTRServerTrustEvaluator.m#L75-L81

x_refsource_MISC

https://www.sit.fraunhofer.de/fileadmin/dokumente/CVE/Advisory_TwitterKit_for_iOS_CVE-2019-16263.pdf

x_refsource_MISC

https://blog.appicaptor.com/2019/10/04/vulnerable-library-warning-twitterkit-for-ios/

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