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High Severity

🟠 Android Traffic Interception

CWECWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation
OWASPM3:2023 Insufficient Transport Layer Protection

🧠 Description

Mobile apps don't validate certificates properly or lack certificate pinning, allowing attackers to perform MiTM attacks and intercept sensitive traffic.

Impact: Credential Theft, Session Hijacking, Data Interception

🎯 Attack Surface

  • API calls without SSL pinning
  • Self-signed certificates accepted
  • TrustManager bypassed
  • Cleartext traffic (HTTP)

🛠️ Tools

Burp Suite Pro
OWASP ZAP
mitmproxy
Frida: ssl-pinning-bypass

🛡️ Mitigation

✅ Implement certificate pinning

✅ Use network_security_config

✅ Enforce HTTPS only

✅ Validate certificate chain properly
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