01 Record
CVE-2016-6231
Kaspersky Safe Browser iOS before 1.7.0 does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Kaspersky Safe Browser iOS before 1.7.0 does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted 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
- 1.27% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 69.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/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
- 2016-08-25 18:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 01:22Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-07-15
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized ActorClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 603dd90da9f7b40b077795585173d5894f6a239bf3b390a6e0102da71497fc66
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.info-sec.cahttp://www.info-sec.ca/advisories/Kaspersky-Safe-Browser.html
- www.securityfocus.com92200http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92200
- support.kaspersky.comhttps://support.kaspersky.com/vulnerability.aspx?el=12430#280716
- www.securityfocus.com20160801 Kaspersky Safe Browser iOS Application - MITM SSL Certificate Vulnerability (CVE-2016-6231)http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539071/100/0/threaded
- seclists.org20160805 Kaspersky Safe Browser iOS Application - MITM SSL Certificate Vulnerability (CVE-2016-6231)http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Aug/30