In the "NQ Contacts Backup & Restore" application 1.1 for Android, no HTTPS is used for transmitting login and synced user data. When logging in, the username is transmitted in cleartext along with an SHA-1 hash of the password. The attacker can either crack this hash or use it for further attacks where only the hash value is required.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-10-29T17:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T18:43:44.967Z

Reserved: 2017-10-29T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2017-15999

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-10-29T17:29:00.313

Modified: 2019-10-03T00:03:26.223

Link: CVE-2017-15999

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