Vulnerability Details CVE-2018-18979
An issue was discovered in the Ascensia Contour NEXT ONE application for Android before 2019-01-15. It has a statically coded initialization vector. Extraction of the initialization vector is necessary for deciphering communications between this application and the backend server. This, in combination with retrieving any user's encrypted data from the Ascensia cloud through another vulnerability, allows an attacker to obtain and modify any patient's medical information.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.003
EPSS Ranking 56.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.4
CVSS v2 Score 5.8
References
Products affected by CVE-2018-18979
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:1.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:1.0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:1.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:1.2.24
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:1.2.44
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:1.2.55
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:1.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:1.3.11
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:1.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:1.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:1.4.50
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:1.4.60
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:1.4.75
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:2.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:2.2.5
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:2.2.51
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:2.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:2.3.10
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:2.3.20
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:2.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:2.4.10
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cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:2.4.20