CVE-2018-18978

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-18978
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-05-06 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the Ascensia Contour NEXT ONE application for Android before 2019-01-15. It has a statically coded encryption key. Extraction of the encryption key is necessary for deciphering communications between this application and the backend server. This, in combination with retrieving any user's encrypted data from the Ascensia cloud through another vulnerability, allows an attacker to obtain and modify any patient's medical information.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-798

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ascensia Contour Diabetes All All All All
Application Ascensia Contour Diabetes All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Medical Exploitation: You Are Now Diabetic MISC depthsecurity.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
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