Check Point Advisories

Apple Products SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchange Security Feature Bypass (CVE-2014-1266)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2014-1151
Date Published:	16 Mar 2014
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Thursday 03 April, 2014
Source:	Apple
Industry Reference:	CVE-2014-1266
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?	Apple TV prior to 6.0.2 iOS prior to 6.1.6 iOS prior to 7.0.6 Mac OS X 10.9 prior to 10.9.2
Vulnerability Description	There exists a security feature bypass vulnerability in Apple products. The vulnerability is due to the SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchange function in the Secure Transport feature not checking the signature in a TLS Server Key Exchange message. This vulnerability allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers by using an arbitrary private key for the signing step or omitting the signing step.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Apple Products SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchange Security Feature Bypass protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name: SSL Protection Violation.
Attack Information: Apple Products SSLVerifySignedServerKeyExchange Security Feature Bypass