CVE-2015-2078

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The SDK for Komodia Redirector with SSL Digestor, as used in Lavasoft Ad-Aware Web Companion 1.1.885.1766 and Ad-Aware AdBlocker (alpha) 1.3.69.1, Qustodio for Windows, Atom Security, Inc. StaffCop 5.8, and other products, does not properly verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2077.

The SDK for Komodia Redirector with SSL Digestor, as used in Lavasoft Ad-Aware Web Companion 1.1.885.1766 and Ad-Aware AdBlocker (alpha) 1.3.69.1, Qustodio for Windows, Atom Security, Inc. StaffCop 5.8, and other products, does not properly verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-2077.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-02-24 23:59:00

Last updated 9 years ago

2015-02-28 02:59:00

Affected Software

Komodia Redirector SDK

References

http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/02/extracting-superfish-certificate.html#.VOq6Yfn8Fp4

http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/02/some-notes-on-superfish.html#.VOq6Yvn8Fp4

VU#529496

Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

1031779

TA15-051A

Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

https://blog.filippo.io/komodia-superfish-ssl-validation-is-broken/

Exploit

https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/windows-ssl-interception-gone-wild/1570074729899339

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