CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-18979

7.4 HIGH Published 2019-05-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-05-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-798

Description

An issue was discovered in the Ascensia Contour NEXT ONE application for Android before 2019-01-15. It has a statically coded initialization vector. Extraction of the initialization vector 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.

Affected configurations

• ascensia contour diabetes (< 2.5.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials weakness

References