CVE-2015-3996: Afnetworking Project Afnetworking

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The default AFSecurityPolicy.validatesDomainName configuration for AFSSLPinningModeNone in the AFNetworking framework before 2.5.3, as used in the ownCloud iOS Library, disables verification of a server hostname against the domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.

Affected products

• Afnetworking Project Afnetworking: up to and including 2.5.2

Published 2015-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.