The default AFSecurityPolicy.validatesDomainName configuration for AFSSLPinningModeNone in the AFNetworking framework before 2.5.3, as used in the ownCloud iOS Library, disables verification of a server hostname against the domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2015-10-27T16:00:00
Updated: 2015-10-27T15:57:01
Reserved: 2015-05-15T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-3996
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2015-10-27T16:59:00.100
Modified: 2015-10-28T18:41:26.763
Link: CVE-2015-3996
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