GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven, npm, PyPI
GHSA-j3f7-7rmc-6wqj Improper certificate management in AWS IoT Device SDK v2
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-40831
- 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: < 1.6.0 → fixed in 1.6.0
• PyPI awsiotsdk: < 1.7.0 → fixed in 1.7.0
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 macOS systems. Additionally, SNI validation is also not enabled when the CA has been "overridden". 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 address this behavior. This issue affects: Amazon Web Services AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Java versions prior to 1.5.0 on macOS. Amazon Web Services AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Python versions prior to 1.7.0 on macOS. Amazon Web Services AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for C++ versions prior to 1.14.0 on macOS. Amazon Web Services AWS IoT Device SDK v2 for Node.js versions prior to 1.6.0 on macOS. Amazon Web Services AWS-C-IO 0.10.7 on macOS.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-40831 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-2021-40831 advisory
- https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2/commit/46375e9b1bfb34109b9ff3b1eff9c770f9daa186 web
- https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-js-v2/commit/22f1989f5bdb0bdd9c912a5a2d255ee6c0854f68 web
- https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-python-v2/commit/5aef82573202309063eb540b72cee0e565f85a2d web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j3f7-7rmc-6wqj 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-2021-864.yaml web