CVE-2017-15999 - In the "NQ Contacts Backup & Restore" application 1.1 for Android, no HTTPS is used for transmitting login and synced user data

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CRITICAL

In the "NQ Contacts Backup & Restore" application 1.1 for Android, no HTTPS is used for transmitting login and synced user data

Published Oct 29, 2017

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.69%

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 products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-319

References (2)

https://1337sec.blogspot.de/2017/10/auditing-nq-contacts-backup-restore-11.html
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-7415
Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://1337sec.blogspot.de/2017/10/auditing-nq-contacts-backup-restore-11.html		x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-7415		Advisory