[Japanese]

JVNDB-2013-000079

Yahoo! Japan Shopping for Android contains an issue where it fails to verify SSL server certificates

Overview

Yahoo! Japan Shopping for Android provided by Yahoo Japan Corporation contains an issue where it fails to verify SSL server certificates.

Zachary Mathis of Proactive Defense (Kobe Digital Labo) reported this vulnerability to IPA.
JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership.
CVSS Severity (What is CVSS?)

CVSS V2 Severity:
Base Metrics 2.6 (Low) [IPA Score]
  • Access Vector: Network
  • Access Complexity: High
  • Authentication: None
  • Confidentiality Impact: None
  • Integrity Impact: Partial
  • Availability Impact: None
Affected Products


Yahoo Japan Corporation
  • Yahoo! Japan Shopping for Android ver.1.4 and earlier

According to the developer, the iOS version is not affected by this vulnerability.
Impact

A man-in-the-minddle attack may allow an attacker to eavesdrop on an encrypted communication.
Solution

[Update the Software]
Update to the latest version according to the information provided by the developer.
Vendor Information

Yahoo Japan Corporation
CWE (What is CWE?)

  1. No Mapping(CWE-Other) [IPA Evaluation]
CVE (What is CVE?)

  1. CVE-2013-4700
References

  1. JVN : JVN#75084836
  2. National Vulnerability Database (NVD) : CVE-2013-4700
Revision History

  • [2013/08/19]
      Web page was published
    [2013/08/23]
      References : Content was added

Date Public2013/08/19
Date First Published2013/08/19
Date Last Updated2013/08/23