CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-5672

8.1 HIGH Published 2016-08-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2016-08-01
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected]): 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses: CWE-20, CWE-310

Description

Intel Crosswalk before 19.49.514.5, 20.x before 20.50.533.11, 21.x before 21.51.546.0, and 22.x before 22.51.549.0 interprets a user's acceptance of one invalid X.509 certificate to mean that all invalid X.509 certificates should be accepted without prompting, which makes it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

Affected configurations

• intel crosswalk (<= 19.49.514.4)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

CWE-310

Weakness · CWE (1)

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138107/Intel-Crosswalk-Project-Man-In-The-Middle.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/217871 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539051/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92199 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://blogs.intel.com/evangelists/2016/07/28/crosswalk-security-vulnerability/ Vendor Advisory
https://crosswalk-project.org/jira/browse/XWALK-6986 Permissions Required, Technical Description
https://lists.crosswalk-project.org/pipermail/crosswalk-help/2016-July/002167.html Vendor Advisory
https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2016/07/29/advisory-intel-crosswalk-ssl-prompt-issue Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/138107/Intel-Crosswalk-Project-Man-In-The-Middle.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/217871 Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539051/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92199 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://blogs.intel.com/evangelists/2016/07/28/crosswalk-security-vulnerability/ Vendor Advisory
https://crosswalk-project.org/jira/browse/XWALK-6986 Permissions Required, Technical Description
https://lists.crosswalk-project.org/pipermail/crosswalk-help/2016-July/002167.html Vendor Advisory
https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2016/07/29/advisory-intel-crosswalk-ssl-prompt-issue Third Party Advisory