CVE-2017-18227
Description
WebTitan Gateway's TLS interception lacks proper certificate validation, enabling man-in-the-middle attacks on HTTPS traffic.
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WebTitan Gateway's TLS interception lacks proper certificate validation, enabling man-in-the-middle attacks on HTTPS traffic.
Vulnerability
TitanHQ WebTitan Gateway's TLS interception feature performs incorrect certificate validation, allowing an attacker to impersonate arbitrary servers. The exact affected versions are not specified in the available references. As highlighted by research on HTTPS interception [1], such issues are common among middlebox products.
Exploitation
An attacker with network access (e.g., on the same network segment) can perform a man-in-the-middle attack by presenting a crafted certificate that WebTitan's TLS interception accepts due to improper validation. No authentication or user interaction is required.
Impact
Successful exploitation enables the attacker to decrypt, read, and modify all HTTPS traffic passing through the WebTitan Gateway, leading to full compromise of confidentiality and integrity of encrypted communications.
Mitigation
No fix or workaround is provided in the available references. Users should contact TitanHQ for updated software versions that address this issue.
AI Insight generated on May 26, 2026. Synthesized from this CVE's description and the cited reference URLs; citations are validated against the source bundle.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
No source-code context for this CVE — mechanics is only generated when we can read the actual fix diff. Without that, the four sections (root cause, attack vector, affected code, fix) would be speculation rather than analysis.
References
3- dx.doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2017.23456mitrex_refsource_MISC
- jhalderm.com/pub/papers/interception-ndss17.pdfmitrex_refsource_MISC
- www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2017/ndss-2017-programme/security-impact-https-interception/mitrex_refsource_MISC
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