CVE-2016-0818

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-03-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-254

Description

The caching functionality in the TrustManagerImpl class in TrustManagerImpl.java in Conscrypt in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49H, and 6.x before 2016-03-01 mishandles the distinction between an intermediate CA and a trusted root CA, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers by leveraging access to an intermediate CA to issue a certificate, aka internal bug 26232830.

Affected products

Android: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1 (+18)

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-03-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84245
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/conscrypt/+/4c9f9c2201116acf790fca25af43995d29980ee0
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/conscrypt/+/c4ab1b959280413fb11bf4fd7f6b4c2ba38bd779
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-03-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84245
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/conscrypt/+/4c9f9c2201116acf790fca25af43995d29980ee0
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/conscrypt/+/c4ab1b959280413fb11bf4fd7f6b4c2ba38bd779

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