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GHSA-jrm8-xgf3-fwqr MobSF Partial Denial of Service (DoS)
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-24804
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- mobsf
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1287
- Reviewed
- 2025-02-05
Affected packages
• PyPI mobsf: < 4.3.1 → fixed in 4.3.1
Description
Partial Denial of Service (DoS)
Product: MobSF
Version: v4.2.9
CWE-ID: CWE-1287: Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input
CVSS vector v.4.0: 6.9 (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N)
CVSS vector v.3.1: 6.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Description: DoS in the Scans Results and iOS Dynamic Analyzer functionality
Impact: Leveraging this vulnerability would make Scans Results and iOS Dynamic Analyzer pages unavailable.
Vulnerable component: urls.py
https://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF/blob/d1d3b7a9aeb1a8c8c7c229a3455b19ade9fa8fe0/mobsf/MobSF/urls.py#L401
Exploitation conditions: A malicious application was uploaded to the MobSF.
Mitigation: Check the uploaded bundle IDs against the regex.
Researcher: Oleg Surnin (Positive Technologies)
Research
Researcher discovered zero-day vulnerability Partial Denial of Service (DoS) in MobSF in the Scans Results and iOS Dynamic Analyzer functionality.
According to Apple's documentation for bundle ID's, it must contain only alphanumeric characters (A–Z, a–z, and 0–9), hyphens (-), and periods (.).
(https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information-property-list/cfbundleidentifier)
However, an attacker can manually modify this value in `Info.plist` file and add special characters to the `CFBundleIdentifier` value.
In the `urls.py` file URL rules are defined.
https://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF/blob/d1d3b7a9aeb1a8c8c7c229a3455b19ade9fa8fe0/mobsf/MobSF/urls.py#L401
*Listing 3.*
```
bundle_id_regex = r'(?P([a-zA-Z0-9]{1}[\w.-]{1,255}))$'
skip code
re_path(fr'^ios/view_report/{bundle_id_regex}',
ios_view_report.ç,
name='ios_view_report'),
```
When the application parses the wrong characters in the bundle ID, it encounters an error.
As a result, it will not display content and will throw a 500 error instead. The only way to make the pages work again is to manually remove the malicious application from the system.
Vulnerability reproduction
To reproduce the vulnerability, follow the steps described below.
• Unzip the IPA file of any iOS application.
*Listing 4. Unzipping the file*
```
unzip test.ipa
```
• Modify the value of `CFBundleIdentifier` by adding restricted characters in the `Info.plist` file.
*Figure 7. Example with `'` character`
• Zip the modified IPA file.
*Listing 5. Zipping the file*
```
zip -r dos.ipa Payload/
```
• Upload the modified IPA file to Static Analysis and wait until it finished
• Open the following pages:
`http://mobsf/recent_scans/`
`http://mobsf/ios/dynamic_analysis/`
*Figure 8. DoS Example*
*Figure 9. DoS Example*
_________________
Please, assign all credits to Oleg Surnin (Positive Technologies)
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-24804 Mobile Security Framework (MobSF) is an automated, all-in-one mobile application (Android/iOS/Windows) pen-testing, malware analysis and… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1287 Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input weakness
References
- https://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF/security/advisories/GHSA-jrm8-xgf3-fwqr web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-24804 advisory
- https://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF/commit/05206e72cae35b311615a70e51e1a946955c5e83 web
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information-property-list/cfbundleidentifier web
- https://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF package
- https://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF/blob/d1d3b7a9aeb1a8c8c7c229a3455b19ade9fa8fe0/mobsf/MobSF/urls.py#L401 web