SB2018051006 - Man-in-the-middle attack in Siemens Siveillance VMS Video Mobile App
Published: May 10, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018051006
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Man-in-the-middle attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-4849)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to to conduct man-in-the-middle attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper certificate validation. A remote attacker can conduct man-in-the-middle attack, intercept of the communication channel between the affected app and a server and generate a certificate that results for the validation algorithm in a checksum identical to a trusted certificate to read data from and write data to the encrypted communication channel between the app and a server.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.