CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-16263
7.4 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-10-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/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-295
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.
Affected configurations
• twitter twitter kit (<= 3.4.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness
References
- https://blog.appicaptor.com/2019/10/04/vulnerable-library-warning-twitterkit-for-ios/ Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/twitter-archive/twitter-kit-ios/blob/ac42e1351a66afa5ff7718d04d64a905dafe1f41/TwitterCore/TwitterCore/Networking/Security/TWTRServerTrustEvaluator.m#L75-L81 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.sit.fraunhofer.de/fileadmin/dokumente/CVE/Advisory_TwitterKit_for_iOS_CVE-2019-16263.pdf Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.appicaptor.com/2019/10/04/vulnerable-library-warning-twitterkit-for-ios/ Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/twitter-archive/twitter-kit-ios/blob/ac42e1351a66afa5ff7718d04d64a905dafe1f41/TwitterCore/TwitterCore/Networking/Security/TWTRServerTrustEvaluator.m#L75-L81 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.sit.fraunhofer.de/fileadmin/dokumente/CVE/Advisory_TwitterKit_for_iOS_CVE-2019-16263.pdf Exploit, Third Party Advisory