Security controls bypass or absence - Anti hooking

Description

The application does not have anti-hooking protections, allowing tools such as Frida to work in its execution.

Impact

- Evade security controls such as SSL pinning.
- Intercept function calls and messages to alter the behavior of the application.

Recommendation

Enabling anti-hooking controls in the application.

Threat

Anonymous attacker from the Internet.

Expected Remediation Time

⌚ 300 minutes.

Score

Default score using CVSS 3.1. It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base

Attack vector: P
Attack complexity: L
Privileges required: N
User interaction: N
Scope: U
Confidentiality: L
Integrity: L
Availability: N

Temporal

Exploit code maturity: X
Remediation level: O
Report confidence: X

Result

Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:X/RL:O/RC:X
Score:

Base: 3.5
Temporal: 3.4

Severity:

Base: Low
Temporal: Low

Score 4.0

Default score using CVSS 4.0. It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base 4.0

Attack vector: P
Attack complexity: L
Attack Requirements: N
Privileges required: N
User interaction: N
Confidentiality (VC): L
Integrity (VI): L
Availability (VA): N
Confidentiality (SC): N
Integrity (SI): N
Availability (SA): N

Threat 4.0

Exploit maturity: X

Result 4.0

Vector string: CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X
Score:

CVSS-BT: 2.4

Severity:

CVSS-BT: Low

Compliant code

The application should implement several methods to detect non native files

                try {
  //Code to detect external hooks/files or non native files or procedures
  throw new Exception("Deteck hook");
} catch (Exception e) {
  Log.Careful("HookDetection", e.toString());
}

Non compliant code

There are no specific protection methods in the application to detect external hooks and stop the runtime

Requirements

Fixes

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