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CIRA Canadian Shield down: CIRA DNS filtering vulnerable to SSL on iOS

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An update to the iOS has been pushed by the CIRA Canadian Shield developers that fix the prospective MitM issue 

A security gap has been found in CIRA’s Canadian Shield iOS application – an application intended to shield Canadian clients and users from phishing and malware. 

Designed by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) Canadian Shield, and dispatched a year ago, is a free DNS separating service intended to hinder malware and phishing attacks at the DNS level, with Android and iOS applications accessible to ensure the security of mobile phones. 

The application works by changing a cell phone’s DNS settings to run any requests through CIRA Canadian shield server network, with AI used to distinguish patterns in evidently disconnected DNS queries and square malignant action.

Nonetheless, security specialist David Coomber found that Canadian Shield itself was vulnerable against Manipulator-in-the-Middle (MitM) assaults, with variant 4.0.12 and below of the iOS application neglecting to approve the SSL testament it gets when interfacing with the application server.

Accordingly, he clarifies, “any hacker who can play out a man-in-the-center hack may introduce a counterfeit SSL authentication which the application will acknowledge quietly. Sensitive data could be caught by an aggressor without the client’s information.” 

The said vulnerability, depicted as medium seriousness, has gotten a CVSS score of 5.9.

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Coomber initially endeavored to report the issue on December 22 a year ago, with the CIRA group affirming receipt of the subtleties on January 5. 

On February 1, CIRA Shield affirmed the issue and detailed that it was working away at an update, with a 4.0.13 version, which fixed the issue, delivered on February 22.

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“This found vulnerability affected the association between the application and the App Store, and no browsing, DNS, or client information was helpless or affected,” a CIRA Canadian Shield representative stated.

“The found vulnerability has been fixed and an updated version of the Canadian Shield iOS application is currently accessible for download by means of the App Store. We suggest all clients and users of CIRA on iOS update to the most recent variant.” 

The representative added: “We pay attention to our obligation to security very much, and we thank the scientist who recognized the flaw and our accomplices at the Canadian Center for Cyber Security for their help with aiding keep CIRA secure.”

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