CVE-2018-18979 affects the Ascensia Contour NEXT ONE Android application (versions prior to 2019-01-15) due to a statically coded initialization vector. This vulnerability, rated HIGH with a CVSS score of 7.4, allows an attacker to decrypt communications and potentially modify patient medical information if combined with another vulnerability to extract encrypted data from the Ascensia cloud. While the attack complexity is high, no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ascensia:contour_diabetes:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.