CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-15999

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2017-10-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-10-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-319

Description

In the "NQ Contacts Backup & Restore" application 1.1 for Android, no HTTPS is used for transmitting login and synced user data. When logging in, the username is transmitted in cleartext along with an SHA-1 hash of the password. The attacker can either crack this hash or use it for further attacks where only the hash value is required.

Affected configurations

• nq contacts backup \& restore 1.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-328 Use of Weak Hash weakness

References