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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2018-18975

High
7.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in the Ascensia Contour NEXT ONE app for iOS before 2019-01-15. An attacker may proxy communications between the app and Ascensia backend servers because of a weak certificate-pinning implementation, leading to disclosure of medical information.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published