CVE-2018-20200

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-295

Description

CertificatePinner.java in OkHttp 3.x through 3.12.0 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass certificate pinning by changing SSLContext and the boolean values while hooking the application. NOTE: This id is disputed because some parties don't consider this is a vulnerability. Their rationale can be found in https://github.com/square/okhttp/issues/4967

Affected products

Squareup Okhttp: from 3.0.0 through 3.12.0

References

https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2018120252
https://github.com/square/okhttp/commits/master
https://github.com/square/okhttp/issues/4967
https://github.com/square/okhttp/releases
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/519eb0fd45642dcecd9ff74cb3e71c20a4753f7d82e2f07864b5108f%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
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