GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven, npm, PyPI
GHSA-c4rh-4376-gff4 Improper certificate management in AWS IoT Device SDK v2
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-40830
- Ecosystem
- Maven, npm, PyPI
- Packages
- software.amazon.awssdk.iotdevicesdk:aws-iot-device-sdk, aws-iot-device-sdk-v2, awsiotsdk
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-295
- Reviewed
- 2021-11-24
Affected packages
• Maven software.amazon.awssdk.iotdevicesdk:aws-iot-device-sdk: < 1.5.0 → fixed in 1.5.0
• npm aws-iot-device-sdk-v2: < 1.5.3 → fixed in 1.5.3
• PyPI awsiotsdk: < 1.6.1 → fixed in 1.6.1
Description
The AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Java, Python, C++ and Node.js appends a user supplied Certificate Authority (CA) to the root CAs instead of overriding it on Unix systems. TLS handshakes will thus succeed if the peer can be verified either from the user-supplied CA or the system’s default trust-store. Attackers with access to a host’s trust stores or are able to compromise a certificate authority already in the host's trust store (note: the attacker must also be able to spoof DNS in this case) may be able to use this issue to bypass CA pinning. An attacker could then spoof the MQTT broker, and either drop traffic and/or respond with the attacker's data, but they would not be able to forward this data on to the MQTT broker because the attacker would still need the user's private keys to authenticate against the MQTT broker. The 'aws_tls_ctx_options_override_default_trust_store_*' function within the aws-c-io submodule has been updated to override the default trust store. This corrects this issue. This issue affects: Amazon Web Services AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Java versions prior to 1.5.0 on Linux/Unix. Amazon Web Services AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Python versions prior to 1.6.1 on Linux/Unix. Amazon Web Services AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for C++ versions prior to 1.12.7 on Linux/Unix. Amazon Web Services AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Node.js versions prior to 1.5.3 on Linux/Unix. Amazon Web Services AWS-C-IO 0.10.4 on Linux/Unix.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-40830 The AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Java, Python, C++ and Node.js appends a user supplied Certificate Authority (CA) to the root CAs instead of… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40830 advisory
- https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2/commit/67950ad2a02f2f9355c310b69dc9226b017f32f2 web
- https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-js-v2/commit/53a36e3ac203291494120604d416b6de59177cac web
- https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-python-v2/commit/0450ce68add7e3d05c6d781ecdac953c299c053a web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c4rh-4376-gff4 advisory
- https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-cpp-v2 web
- https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2 web
- https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-js-v2 web
- https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-python-v2 web
- https://github.com/awslabs/aws-c-io web
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/awsiotsdk/PYSEC-2021-863.yaml web