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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2018-18977

High
7.5/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in the Ascensia Contour NEXT ONE application for Android before 2019-01-15. An attacker may reverse engineer the codebase to extract sensitive data that contributes to the disclosure of medical information of patients utilizing the Ascensia platform. This occurs because of weak obfuscation.

  • 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