CVE-2018-14979 affects ASUS ZenFone 3 Max devices, where a pre-installed app, com.asus.loguploader, can be triggered by other apps to write sensitive system data, including Wi-Fi passwords and bug reports, to external storage. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.7 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with high complexity, allowing an attacker with low privileges to achieve high confidentiality impact by reading sensitive data from the SD card. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.0.0.55CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:asus:zenfone_3_max_firmware:7.0.0.55:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.