Insufficiently Protected Credentials
CVE-2017-18695
Summary
An issue was discovered on Samsung mobile devices with KK(4.4), L(5.0/5.1), M(6.0), and N(7.0) software. Attackers (who control a certain subdomain) can discover a user's credentials, during an email account login, via an EAS autodiscover packet. The Samsung ID is SVE-2016-7654 (January 2017).
- LOW
- NETWORK
- NONE
- UNCHANGED
- NONE
- LOW
- HIGH
- NONE
CWE-522 - Insufficiently Protected Credentials
The product transmits or stores authentication credentials, but it uses an insecure method that is susceptible to unauthorized interception and/or retrieval.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published