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CVE-2017-15997

In the "NQ Contacts Backup & Restore" application 1.1 for Android, RC4 encryption is used to secure the user password locally stored in sha…

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.8
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.1%
percentile 3%
Public exploits
0
none known

In the "NQ Contacts Backup & Restore" application 1.1 for Android, RC4 encryption is used to secure the user password locally stored in shared preferences. Because there is a static RC4 key, an attacker can gain access to user credentials more easily by leveraging access to the preferences XML file.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.13% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.07.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD2.02.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-327 Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

References

  • 1337sec.blogspot.de /2017/10/auditing-nq-contacts-backup-restore-11.html · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

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