CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2018-15476 — Mystrom Wifi Switch Firmware security vulnerability
An issue was discovered in myStrom WiFi Switch V1 before 2.66, WiFi Switch V2 before 3.80, WiFi Switch EU before 3.80, WiFi Bulb before 2.58, WiFi LED Strip before 3.80, WiFi Button before 2.73, and WiFi Button Plus before 2.73. The SSL/TLS server certificate in the device to cloud communication was not verified by the device. As a result, an attacker in control of the network traffic of a device could have taken control of a device by intercepting and modifying commands issued from the server to the device in a Man-in-the-Middle attack. This included the ability to inject firmware update commands into the communication and cause the device to install maliciously modified firmware.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 9.3 (2.0)
- Published
- 2018-08-30
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-295
Affected products
- mystrom / wifi_switch_firmware
- mystrom / wifi_button_plus_firmware
- mystrom / wifi_button_firmware
- mystrom / wifi_switch_eu_firmware
- mystrom / wifi_bulb_firmware
- mystrom / wifi_led_strip_firmware
Matched remediation archetype
Cryptography, certificate, signature, and channel validation
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Check exposure
- Inventory affected algorithms, key uses, trust stores, certificate validation settings, random sources, and plaintext channels across clients and services.
- Determine which secrets, identities, signatures, or data protections depend on the affected primitive or validation path.
- Check debug, compatibility, fallback, and hostname or audience override settings in build and runtime configuration.
Remediate safely
- Use a maintained platform cryptographic API with approved algorithms, modes, parameters, randomness, and full peer identity validation.
- Remove insecure fallback and validation bypasses; separate keys by purpose and load them from managed secret storage.
- Plan rotation or reissuance for affected keys, certificates, tokens, hashes, or ciphertext and document compatibility sequencing.
Authoritative sources
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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