01 Record
CVE-2016-5648
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.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: certcc
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.17% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 67.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-06-08 20:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 01:07Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-06-16
- Assigning CNA
- certcc
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-295Improper Certificate ValidationBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 78f5a50dd14f9ffdca658b630f592ec5e8bbd3304bf889e3e9260d3e6d7b8791
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com20160706 Acer Portal Android Application - MITM SSL Certificate Vulnerability (CVE-2016-5648)http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538851/100/0/threaded
- seclists.org20160707 Acer Portal Android Application - MITM SSL Certificate Vulnerability (CVE-2016-5648)http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jul/17
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137775/Acer-Portal-Android-Application-3.9.3.2006-Man-In-The-Middle.html
- www.kb.cert.orgVU#690343https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/690343