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CVE-2025-14022: LINE client for iOS prior to 15.4 allows man-in-the-middle attacks due to improper SSL/TLS certificate validation in an integrated financial

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 27/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.16% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone on the same network segment can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
  • According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

LINE client for iOS prior to 15.4 allows man-in-the-middle attacks due to improper SSL/TLS certificate validation in an integrated financial SDK. The SDK interfered with the application's network processing, causing server certificate verification to be disabled for a significant portion of network traffic, which could allow a network-adjacent attacker to intercept or modify encrypted communications.

MediumCVSS 6.8 · v3.1—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Dec 15, 2025
Updated
Oct 7, 2026
EPSS
0.1% · 5th percentile

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Action score

27

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
27 / 40 · 6.8 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.1%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
6.8
CNA · LY-Corporation
7.7
0.9 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
linecorpline

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Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • linecorp linebefore 15.4.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (LY-Corporation). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • LINE Corporation LINE client for iOS

    • 15.3 and later · before 15.4affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2023-5554Lack of TLS certificate verification in log transmission of a financial module within LINE client for iOS prior to 13.16.0.
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2016-4850LINE for Windows before 4.8.3 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code.
    33Monitor
  • CVE-2023-45559An issue in Tamaki_hamanoki Line v.13.6.1 allows attackers to send crafted notifications via leakage of the channel access token.
    32Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2025-14020Dec 15, 2025 · LINE client for Android versions prior to 14.20 contains a UI spoofing vulnerability in the in-app browser where the full-screen security To
    17Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2025-14021Dec 15, 2025 · The in-app browser in LINE client for iOS versions prior to 14.14 is vulnerable to address bar spoofing, which could allow attackers to exec
    17Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2025-14023Dec 15, 2025 · LINE client for iOS prior to 15.19 allows UI spoofing due to inconsistencies between the navigation state and the in-app browser's user inte
    17Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone on the same network segment can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
none
Attack vector
Adjacent
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

nvd-primary

Root cause

A certificate validation error is silently swallowed instead of terminating the connection. Often, code added for a test environment makes its way into production.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

kotlin
override fun checkServerTrusted(chain: Array<X509Certificate>, type: String) {  // Left empty for the test environment}

Fixed

kotlin
val client = OkHttpClient.Builder()  .certificatePinner(    CertificatePinner.Builder()      .add("api.sirius.example", "sha256/…")      .build()  ).build()

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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