CVE-2017-0911 Auth bypass in Twitter Kit for iOS

Medium 5.4 Published Updated

Attackers can forge authentication callbacks to associate Twitter accounts with third-party services due to missing response verification in the login flow.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2017-0911?

CVE-2017-0911 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Twitter Kit for iOS, published on 9 Feb 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Twitter Kit for iOS versions 3.0 to 3.2.1 is vulnerable to a callback verification flaw in the "Login with Twitter" component allowing an attacker to provide alternate credentials. In the final step of "Login with Twitter" authentication information is passed back to the application using the registered custom URL scheme (typically twitterkit-<consumer-key>) on iOS. Because the callback handler did not verify the authenticity of the response, this step is vulnerable to forgery, potentially allowing attacker to associate a Twitter account with a third-party service.

Weakness: CWE-287, CWE-360

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-0911?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Twitter Twitter Kit.

How do I fix CVE-2017-0911?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-0911 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2017-0911 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-0911 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-rcwq-7c2v-mc74.

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