CVE-2011-4872

Summary

CVECVE-2011-4872
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-02-05 11:55:00 UTC
Updated2012-02-16 05:00:00 UTC
DescriptionMultiple HTC Android devices including Desire HD FRG83D and GRI40, Glacier FRG83, Droid Incredible FRF91, Thunderbolt 4G FRG83D, Sensation Z710e GRI40, Sensation 4G GRI40, Desire S GRI40, EVO 3D GRI40, and EVO 4G GRI40 allow remote attackers to obtain 802.1X Wi-Fi credentials and SSID via a crafted application that uses the android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE permission to call the toString method on the WifiConfiguration class.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-200

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Htc Desire Hd frg83d All All All
Hardware Htc Desire Hd gri40 All All All
Hardware Htc Desire Hd frg83d All All All
Hardware Htc Desire Hd gri40 All All All
Hardware Htc Desire S gri40 All All All
Hardware Htc Desire S gri40 All All All
Hardware Htc Droid Incredible frf91 All All All
Hardware Htc Droid Incredible frf91 All All All
Hardware Htc Evo 3d gri40 All All All
Hardware Htc Evo 3d gri40 All All All
Hardware Htc Evo 4g gri40 All All All
Hardware Htc Evo 4g gri40 All All All
Hardware Htc Glacier frg83 All All All
Hardware Htc Glacier frg83 All All All
Hardware Htc Sensation 4g gri40 All All All
Hardware Htc Sensation 4g gri40 All All All
Hardware Htc Sensation Z710e gri40 All All All
Hardware Htc Sensation Z710e gri40 All All All
Hardware Htc Thunderbolt 4g frg83d All All All
Hardware Htc Thunderbolt 4g frg83d All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
20120201 802.1X password exploit on many HTC Android devices BUGTRAQ archives.neohapsis.com
My War with Entropy: 802.1X password exploit on many HTC Android devices MISC blog.mywarwithentropy.com
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#763355 - 802.1X password exploit on many HTC Android devices CERT-VN www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
Multiple HTC Devices 'Android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE' Information Disclosure Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Security Advisory SA47837 - HTC Products Wi-Fi Credentials Disclosure Weakness - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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