CVE-2016-5648
medium
CVSS v3
5.3
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.3
Description
Acer Portal app before 3.9.4.2000 for Android does not properly validate SSL certificates, which allows remote attackers to perform a Man-in-the-middle attack via a crafted SSL certificate.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
63%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| acer | acer_portal | {"endIncluding":"3.9.3.2006"} | |
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137775/Acer-Portal-Android-Application-3.9.3.2006-Man-In-The-Middle.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jul/17
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538851/100/0/threaded
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/690343
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137775/Acer-Portal-Android-Application-3.9.3.2006-Man-In-The-Middle.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jul/17
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538851/100/0/threaded
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/690343
CWEs
CWE-295
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.