Alta Aware — 405: Ava Aware users could receive websocket updates for default views of other users

Release Date

2nd April 2021.

Overview

It has been discovered that Ava Aware users could receive websocket updates for default views of other users. This was addressed by fixing various pubsub related permission issues.

Affected Products

• Ava Aware:
  • All Stable upgrade channel versions before 3.6.5.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions before 3.6.0.

Unaffected Products

• Ava Aware:
  • All Stable upgrade channel versions after and including 3.6.5.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions after and including 3.6.0.
• Ava Cameras: all versions.
• Ava Cloud: all versions.

Resolution

This issue has been fixed in Ava Aware Beta upgrade channel version 3.6.0 and Stable upgrade channel version 3.6.5.

Vulnerability Information

• CVSSv3 score: 4.3 (Medium)
• CVSSv3 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Mitigations

There are no known mitigations for this issue.

Work arounds

There are no known work arounds for this issue.

Acknowledgements

Issue found internally by Ava Security.

Disclosure Timeline

• 4/11/2020 Issue found internally by Ava Security
• 08/03/2021 Root cause established
• 08/03/2021 Fix identified
• 25/03/2021 Patched Ava Aware (Beta upgrade channel) released
• 27/04/2021 Patched Ava Aware (Stable upgrade channel) released
• 02/04/2024 Vulnerability publicly disclosed